Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows what she wants," sighed South African Impresario Peter Toerien. "And she knows she will get it." Fair exchange. For after signing a list of contractual demands that took 41 pages and nine months to accommodate, Sexagenarian Marlene Dietrich agreed to a two-week stand in Johannesburg, her first South African appearance. Among other whims, such as having every last speck of dust hand-whisked from the stage before curtain time, Marlene insisted on two separate dressing rooms: one to "relax" in, one to dress in, so to speak...
...what they want to see. To formulate a foreign policy which will reach its goal, the landscape on the way must be closely observed. The caution Halberstam learned slogging through the jungles of Katanga is relevant to policy makers attempting to plot America's course abroad: "The relationship between African maps and African landscape is extremely haphazard...
Mennen Williams, assistant secretary State for African Affairs, defended policy in the Congo last night before Hall Forum audience which some 35 students who had picked- the meeting earlier in the evening...
...incident does focus upon problems in the Harvard Community which might prove offensive in the future. In the last three years, especially, the number of Negro and African students in the College has risen dramatically; since the College has many groups travelling in the South-athletic teams, music groups, debate councils-the number of Negro students travelling in the South has also increased. We strongly urge the University administration to make its policy known on the questions raised by this unfortunate incident. We hope that the University will make clear to everyone-students. Faculty, and alumni-that it will...
...public rally in Muranga. "Well, I personally have been to Moscow University, and I can assure you that even in Russia no one gets anything for nothing." Then, in a scarcely veiled warning to Odinga, he added: "I fought the colonialists with all my strength, and if any African wants to fight...