Word: afro-asian
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...effect on the U.N. of the emerging African nations and the growing Afro-Asian bloc, Bunche maintained that the "rapid advance in numbers has not impaired the ability of the United Nations to act decisively...
Other Commonwealth leaders declared that Britain's realignment with Europe and away from her Afro-Asian partners will only deepen the chasm that divides the underdeveloped southern nations and the affluent Northern Hemisphere. Said Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan: "You cannot expect friendly coexistence between those countries that are deliberately kept backward and the ones that are bulging with wealth." Black Africa's "uncommitted" Commonwealth members, notably Tanganyika and Nigeria, stoutly rejected Europe's offer of "associate membership" in the Common Market on the theory that this would tie their policies to Western Europe, NATO...
...Jewish immigrants from Europe and the Americas; they had the best education, the choicest jobs, the most money. Today, though Westerners still run the country, they are deeply worried that they will soon be displaced as Israel's ruling class by an unschooled, unskilled mass of settlers of Afro-Asian descent, who already outnumber them. Moroccan-born Dr. André Shuraky, Premier David Ben-Gurion's chief adviser on immigration problems, warned last week that in 15 years three out of every four Israeli Jews will be of Afro-Asian origin...
Shuraky pointed out that in 1950, 56% of Israel's babies were born to Westerners; by 1960, only 22% were. In the same decade, the Afro-Asian group's births soared from 32% to 60%. The non-Jewish population is now growing fastest of all, with a fantastic rate of increase of 40 per 1,000 (v. a world average of 18). Arabs and Druzes, who represent only one-tenth of Israel's 2,200,000 people, produced one-fifth of all babies born there last year...
Rudolph admitted that "Nehru is no Gandhi," but observed that "something must have happened" to push him from a moderate position to a violent one. The slipping prestige of India among the "so-called neutral Afro-Asian nations," and the political advantages implicit in a single decisive action, were the precipitating factors, Rudolph asserted...