Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rabble-rousers who make most of Africa's news, and he is slowly gaining respect as a leader who recognizes that shrill demagoguery is no solution to Africa's ills. Months ago he conceived the idea of a conference of all African leaders, with the modest aim of soberly exploring their common problems. As it turned out, the delegates who came to Monrovia represent a majority of independent Africans -some 95 million of free Africa's 186 million citizens. Significantly absent were the five obstreperous Casablanca powers: the U.A.R., Morocco, Guinea, Ghana and Mali (the Congo...
...with grey-bearded Chief Minister Sardar Partap Singh Kairon. Although he holds a master of arts degree from the University of Michigan, Kairon plainly had the wrong idea about Peace Corps purposes, promptly began asking for agricultural tools and pneumatic tires for bullock carts. Shriver patiently explained that the aim of the Peace Corps was merely to send able and enthusiastic young Americans abroad to work side by side, wherever needed, with the natives of underdeveloped countries. Kairon advised Shriver to be careful about Peace Corps assignments: "Your city boy doesn't do too well in villages, nor does...
...rebellion in the officer corps. In Algeria, a commission set up to investigate individual officers was "helped" by committees of draftee soldiers (quickly dubbed "the Soviets") who accused their wavering commanders. The evidence showed that thousands who had not actively mutinied nonetheless agreed so ardently with Challe's aim of keeping Algeria French that they had not lifted a finger to stop him. With 200 officers under arrest, De Gaulle finally had to call a halt, not because he had caught all the rebel sympathizers, but because he was in danger of shattering the entire command structure...
Author Waugh's aim, reflected in his title, is to be the kind of storyteller he has encountered in the bazaars of Baghdad and Marrakech, surrounded by an absorbed audience squatting on their haunches. His own modest place in the literary bazaar seems assured so long as readers want to hear about far places where men are sorely tested by extreme situations, all told in simple sentences and short paragraphs...
...Princeton, he points out, a professional company puts on plays on the big stage, while student drama, in the 220-seat Theatre Intime, still goes on. "That is not exactly what we should aim for," he says, but he sees definite advantages in such an arrangement...