Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vain Hope? Zambia, whose economy is closely linked to Rhodesia's, threatened to leave the Commonwealth entirely. Five African heads of state found excuses not to attend the conference, and Tanzania's Julius Nyerere refused even to send a delegation in his place. Sierra Leone's Sir Albert Margai, one of the four African Premiers who showed up in person, apparently came to the meeting for the sole purpose of attacking Harold Wilson: in a bitter two-hour tirade, he accused the British leader of everything from duplicity to being "anti-African...
Wilson managed to prevent a walkout, largely because most African Commonwealth members had nothing to gain-and too many economic benefits to lose-by leaving. He offered no new tactics against Rhodesia, clung instead to the hope that his economic boycott would eventually bring Smith down...
...surprisingly uncritical acceptance. But elsewhere, particularly in Europe, many people never doubted that Kennedy's murder was the product of a conspiracy involving either-there is a remarkably wide choice-the right wing, the left wing, the FBI, the CIA or the Dallas police force. When South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was assassinated last week in Capetown, officials hurriedly launched a series of anti-plot explanations to cut off the kind of who-killed-Kennedy rumors that have risen abroad...
...town on the shore of Lake Victoria. Solemn in his red robes and white wig, British-born Judge Harold Platt, a member of Tanzania's High Court, stepped up to the bench. Ededem Effiwatt, the ponderous, coal-black prosecutor, made ready to represent the state. And an unarmed African policeman stood guard by the prisoner in the dock. Everywhere he looked, Peace Corpsman Bill Haywood Kinsey, 24, a North Carolinian who had been charged with the murder of his wife, was reminded that he was a stranger in a strange land...
...December 1964, during their Peace Corps training in the U.S. The assistant medical officer at the local hospital, who had performed the autopsy on Peverley Dennett Kinsey, also testified that she had been beaten about the head by something blunt, like an iron bar. There was an eyewitness, an African farmer who had seen the girl struggling to defend herself. The farmer had summoned his neighbors, and when Kinsey came down from the hill, the Africans attacked him with clubs...