Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call him, youngsters everywhere now flock to new secular schools that have replaced the dreary old Koranic institutions. Young Tunisian women wear mini-djebbas that are the scandal of the mullahs, and bikinis among the scantiest on the Mediterranean. But Bourguiba is kicking more than tradition into the North African dust...
...Bourguiba's admiring silent partner, the U.S. gives more per capita assistance to Tunisia (pop. 4,460,000) than to any other African state. This fiscal year American aid will reach $62 million-mostly in Food for Peace. Though politically pro-West, Bourguiba also welcomes Communist aid: the Russians are building Tunisia's first institute of technology, and the Bulgarians financed a gleaming new 70,000-seat sport stadium outside Tunis. Bourguiba has not been so lucky with all Communists. After he allowed four Chinese sports instructors in to teach young Tunisians pingpong, he discovered that they...
...lived 50,000 years ago. Some anthropologists go so far as to say that the Negro's attributes, coupled with the ordeal of slavery, have produced in him a physically superior race-a theory that gains strength from the Negro's extraordinary ability in athletics. The strongest African blacks were selected as the best slave material; only the hardiest of these survived ocean transport in slave ships; only the sturdiest of back and spirit endured slavery's arduous, degrading yoke...
...favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race." Washington unreflectively accepted slavery as an institution simply because it was there, but before dying he drew up a will emancipating his slaves. The late Albert Schweitzer, who devoted his life and medical skill to African Negroes, went to his grave believing that "the Negro is a child, and with children nothing can be done without the use of authority...
Died. Lieut. General Geoffrey Keyes, 78, planner and combat leader in World War IPs North African and Italian campaigns; of leukemia; in Washington. After the Sicily landing, Keyes led a makeshift provisional corps 200 miles straight across the island's mountainous interior in only three days. He caught the Germans by surprise at Palermo and captured that vital seaport almost without a shot...