Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West, and drive the U.S. completely out of the area. There were also the nonaligned states, which regard Nasser as one of their prophets. There was India, which never loses a chance to woo Arab support for its Kashmir dispute with Moslem Pakistan. And there were some Black African nations whose leaders feel them selves bound to support Nasser in the cause of African unity. As speaker after speaker sounded off, the winner of the war in the Middle East found itself in the curious position of having to fight a defensive battle in the U.N. "Israel," said Abba Eban...
...First Cry gains its greatest power when it abandons trickery and makes surprisingly caustic side excursions into everyday life in Czechoslovakia: the ugly racial prejudice that surfaces when a black African stays too long in a phone booth and precipitates a fight; the prudish moralism of a policeman who makes Abrhám turn the painting of a nude face down; the arrogance of a movie critic who puts down a "bourgeois Italian film" while ogling a couple of girls in bathing suits. Like many films about the young by the young, The First Cry counts somewhat less...
...three leaders had gathered in the Ugandan capital of Kampala to sign a treaty that creates a new East African Community. Though it stops far short of political unity, the new pact, if it works, will almost inevitably strengthen political ties. When it goes into effect next December, it will create a common market in which the vast bulk of goods produced in any of the three countries will not be subject to tariffs at the borders of the other two. A development bank with $36 million in capital will also be established to encourage industrialization, especially in Uganda...
...East African Community supersedes an earlier, British-established regional customs and transportation union, which never had much effect; all its headquarters were in Kenya, whose citizens held most of the key jobs -a fact that was resented by Ugandans and Tanzanians. Under the new plan, the headquarters of the different agencies will be scattered throughout the three participating countries so that each will feel that it is controlling its fair share of the action...
...Neck, N.Y. (South Africa); Jonathan Boorstin (Cambridge); Stephen L. Griffith of Washington. D.C. (Oxford); Nicholas R. Jones of Gates Mills, Ohio (University of London); D. Gordon Mosser Jr. of Minneapolis, Minn. (Oxford); Philip D. Ray of Raleigh, N.C. (University of London); Christopher St. John of Weston (London School of African and Oriental Studies); and Steven Varga-Golovesenko of Huntington Station, N.Y. (University of London...