Word: afro-asian
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...Back." But with full backing from the U.S. and the Afro-Asian nations, the U.N. was determined to dictate a settlement to Tshombe and make it stick. If it fails, the rest of the Congo, starved of the riches that enable Katanga to account for 65% of the country's exports, could splinter into a score of warring tribal domains. Already a corps of 100 Central Government functionaries was flying into Elisabethville to take charge of Katanga's administration...
...international level: the neutrals, the emergent nations, the smaller powers, the Bandung Pact countries, the underdeveloped and the non-aligned. Also the Afro-Asian bloc and the non-nuclear club...
...compare with the current Moslem growth in Africa. There are more than 100 million Moslems on the Dark Continent, and the simple doctrines and disciplines taught by Mohammed are gaining perhaps 9,000,000 converts a year from tribal cults-nine times the conversion rate to Christianity. "The Afro-Asian nations have come out of bondage and are free to choose," crows Mohammed Twefik Eweida, 30, secretary-general of the council. "Religious awakening came together with political liberation...
...Islam, broadcasts the message of the Koran twelve hours a day in eight languages. The council has its own coed training camps. It also provides 1,300 scholarships annually at Egyptian universities to young Moslem men and women from around the world. It sends gold-plated Korans to Afro-Asian VIPs-Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta got one recently with a friendly inscription by Nasser. It has supplied 3,000-volume libraries to 125 Islamic centers on five continents. Its tireless printing presses flood Africa with cheap copies of the Koran and pamphlets that shrewdly blend the word of Allah...
Paramount Loyalty. As the Afro-Asian nations make their way along the slippery path of nationalism, they may well discover that it eventually leads them to federations, or to such combinations as today's European Common Market. Historian Arnold Toynbee argues: "Nationalism certainly doesn't fit into a world riven into ever larger groups. We can no longer afford to have many tiny states which may go to war with each other...