Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Castro had finally inspected the 20% down payment of ransom goods carried to Cuba in the freighter African Pilot, the exchange began. Suddenly Castro stopped the release of the last three planeloads of prisoners, recalled that he had not been paid $2,900,000 in cash for the release of 60 prisoners last spring. With just one telephone call, Robert Kennedy got a $1,000,000 pledge from an unidentified donor-a fund-raising feat that should qualify him for the chairmanship of the United Arab-Jewish Appeal. The sponsoring committee pledged the rest, Clay borrowed cash against...
...Bonus. When the exchange was completed, Donovan, who had been exchanging quips with Castro for hours, mentioned casually that it was a shame that the African Pilot would return to Miami empty. Castro said he would fill it with 1,000 relatives of the prisoners, called it his "Christmas bonus." Some bonus. As it turned out, 922 were permitted to sail-but only after signing over all their property and possessions to Castro's Communist government...
Until recently. President Leopold Senghor and Premier Mamadou Dia of peanut-producing Senegal were as close as two nuts in a pod. Both worked feverishly to win Senegal's independence from France in 1960, and they have shared the struggle to make the hot little West African nation a going concern. Then, six months ago, Dia, back from a trip to Moscow, took a sharp left turn in his official policies. Moderate President Senghor disagreed violently with Dia's new line. Last week, in a showdown in the sunny capital of Dakar, Senghor shucked his old friend...
...intellectual and one of its most staunchly pro-French leaders. A Sorbonne-educated, internationally noted poet, the 56-year-old Senghor served in the postwar French Assembly, even sat in the Paris Cabinet (as Secretary of State for Scientific Research) under Premier Edgar Faure. He is also a devout African nationalist and prominent exponent of "négritude''-the concept that sees Africa as the wave of the future. Nevertheless, Senghor is convinced that Senegal's best hopes for strength and prosperity lie in continued close association with France. Such a philosophy suits French President Charles...
...large South African antelope. A sjambok, on the other hand, is a heavy hide whip...