Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SANDS OF THE KALAHARI. The makers of Zulu find lively if conventional excitement in the plight of five marooned men, led by Stuart Whitman, and one venturesome woman (Susannah York) who endure heat, hunger and sexual desire after a plane crash in the African desert...
...mounted the biggest, swiftest, costliest military buildup in peacetime history. It has laid supply lines across 8,000 miles of ocean. And the nation has filled them in that time with as many tons of materiel as the U.S. could deliver for the first five months of its North African invasion in World War II. From humming Stateside training camps, where 12,500 recruits a month are being taught to fight, to the beaches and jungles of South Viet Nam, where U.S. servicemen and civilians are rushing more than 40 key bases to completion, America's involvement...
...more than a month, the action stirred by Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence has centered in London and Salisbury. Last week the focus shifted to another capital: Lusaka, where Zambia's moderate black African President Kenneth Kaunda was caught in an ever tightening bind...
...Zambia from its markets and to cut off electrical power in the rich Zambian copper fields around Ndola. Rhodesians control the turbines and generators of the giant Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River, which forms the border between the two countries. Completed in 1960 under the now defunct Central African Federation, Kariba supplies both Zambia and Rhodesia with power, ties them together like sullen Siamese twins. For two weeks Kaunda has demanded that Britain at least send troops to "neutralize" the Kariba power station on the Rhodesian side of the river, arguing that Smith's soldiers would not fire...
...question of de facto discrimination has been raised, however. In 1963 the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students sought recognition with a constitution effectively excluding whites. The University refused, and AAAAS substituted a membership-by-election clause. This was commonly --though not officially -- regarded as a means of exclusion analogous to the one which final clubs were alleged...