Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reappearance after five years as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs came only days after ailing Democratic Senator Patrick McNamara, 71, had announced that he would not seek re-election next fall. Might Williams have been gone from Michigan too long? Replied Soapy, now 55: "They'll recognize who I am when I walk down the street." To make sure, Williams last week stumped Michigan streets from Hamtramck to Ishpeming. They recognized...
Strong Suspicion. All the while, he was proclaiming himself the father of Pan-African nationalism, and grinding out intricately vague political doctrines about "African socialism." It all sound ed splendid enough, and his fellow Africans were impressed at first. Later, when they found his agents bent on overthrowing their regimes, other African leaders lost their enthusiasm for the freedom pioneer. He was strongly suspected of instigating the 1963 assassination of Togo's President Sylvanus Olympic; last year 14 French-speaking states joined together in a formal denunciation of his eternal plotting...
...politicians of Western Europe and the United States have any real concern for the welfare of the African nations they will remove the barriers they presently impose on the African agricultural export trade," Colin Clark, director of Oxford University's Agricultural Economics Research Institute, recommended last night...
Clark, an exponent of a free market economy who once ran for the House of Commons as a Laborite, explained to a Kirkland House audience that a large foreign trade would enable the African nations to exchange agricultural products like meat, grain, hemp, and simple textiles for vitally needed manufactured articles plus fertilizers they cannot now produce...
Coupled with an increase in agricultural efficiency, such access to the world market would enable the African nations to take steps toward industrial development, he added...