Word: afro-asian
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...their sovereignty and independence, and in so doing they are defending the cause of the black peoples," said Chalmers. "The independence of the only black nation in America must be safeguarded." The Russians used the occasion to work up anti-Yankee propaganda, but Haiti's appeal to the Afro-Asian bloc fell flat, and the Security Council bucked the issue back to the Organization of American States. The OAS voted to send a second peacemaking group to Hispaniola with a broader mandate to keep peace on the explosive island and pressed Haiti to guarantee the safety of opposition Haitians...
...ttingen Manifesto"-a high-level protest by 18 nuclear scientists against arming West German forces with atomic weapons. To this spirit of dissent, Göttingen adds West Germany's best mathematics institute, its biggest university library and largest agricultural faculty. So many Afro-Asian students now go there that the town's toy shops stock Negro dolls...
...next two years. Powell, as usual, was not in Washington. He had last been noted there on Feb. 26, when he bounced into a subcommittee meeting with a complaining quip: "I shouldn't be here. I have the Asian flu-or should I call it the Afro-Asian flu?" With Powell away, the House Administration Committee recommended that Powell should not have a two-year allotment at all. It would give him just $200,000 for the first year-a cut of some 40%. He would have to come back, hopefully chastened, for the second-year funds...
...same Nigerian, former president of the Afro-Asian student Union at Moscow University, told a press conference at the Festival that many foreign students in Russia were disillusioned by the suppression of free speech in the universities. The African students in Sofia evidently have had a similar reaction...
...billed as the third Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Conference. But discord turned out to be solidarity's dominant theme when the 400 delegates and observers gathered at Moshi, a hamlet on the coffee slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro...