Word: afro-asian
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...told, 14 new nations, 13 of them African, were admitted to the U.N. last week. With their acceptance, the African nations (22 members) became the largest geographical group in the U.N., and the combined Afro-Asian bloc jumped to 42-or close to half the U.N.'s total membership of 96 countries...
What does Khrushchev hope to accomplish at the U.N.? He himself made one of his purposes plain when he announced that the Western chiefs of state should meet him at the U.N. to achieve "a rapid solution" on disarmament. As part of his campaign to alienate Afro-Asian neutrals from the West. Khrushchev clearly plans to launch a new disarmament spectacular at the General Assembly...
...swelling tourist trade, and the modernistic, 2,000-seat Castro Alves Theater has been rebuilt after its destruction by fire two years ago. The University of Bahia, which last week inaugurated a new, glass-walled Polytechnic School, has fired an artistic rebirth with new schools of sacred art, Afro-Asian studies and theater. Argentine Artist Carybe, who painted the mural in American Airlines' Idlewild terminal (TIME, Aug. 15), has settled in Salvador; Genaro de Carvalho, a leading maker of modern tapestries, lives there. Keeping abreast of the trend, the Catholic Church is pushing completion of its university, with colleges...
Africans may take comfort in the fact that both U.S. presidential candidates have now said as much in their own ways. The Kennedy Foundation is footing the air fares for those East Africans. For his part, Richard Nixon last week called Afro-Asian education "our most critical long-range problem." Said he: "There is no area where the national interest can be served better...
...cardboard throne this astonishing Lumumba?'' Paris-Jour, echoing the feeling of those Western Europeans who see Europeans in Africa raped, robbed and murdered by what they regard as ungrateful subjects, sneered at Hammarskjold as the "chief of an international supergovernment exclusively at the service of the Afro-Asian countries that have sworn to humiliate and humble Westerners.'' One wing of French opinion regards Katanga as a dangerous precedent. What if Algeria got its independence, and the European colons set up a secessionist state along the Algerian coast? Would U.N. troops fly in to guarantee all Algeria...