Word: anthem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...step to the anthem, the leaders of East and West approach the Gate...
...almost no gunfire. When they tuned into Damascus radio at breakfast, Syrians learned that they had been "liberated" from the United Arab Republic, of which their country had been an uneasy part for nearly four years. In northern Syria, Aleppo radio went dead in the midst of the anthem, Beloved Nasser, Lover of Egypt and Syria -returning ten minutes later with a searing tirade against Nasser, the "tyrant" who "wished evil for the Arab people...
...over the death of Nana Kwabena Kena II, Ghana's high commissioner to India. Kena's body had arrived just before the Peace Corpsmen landed. The officials who welcomed them were in a somber mood, but the young teachers moved them deeply by singing, in Twi, the anthem Yen Ara Asase Ni (Land of Our Birth). Said U.S. Ambassador Francis Russell: "I know that they will establish deep and lasting friendship while they are here, and that they are establishing a pattern that will do great good in many ways for many people." To this sentiment, most Americans...
...cheered defiantly. At Miami's International Airport last week, 1,000 Cuban exiles bade farewell to the prisoners-for-tractors team, returning fruitlessly to their Cuban jails. As the eight men* walked to the Pan American DC-6B, the crowd sang La Bayamesa, Cuba's national anthem ("Hurry to the battle . . . "), and one prisoner, refusing to give up hope, declared: "I'll be back soon." The team stood waving at the foot of the ramp until a Miami policeman snapped: "O.K.. c'mon. C'mon. Get aboard...
...Lights & Fizz. Aboard his flagship, Anderson was a gracious host to many world political figures. He was always careful to court them with such niceties as dimming the lights when their national anthem was played. Only a social drinker himself, he kept them more or less happy by serving a fizzy grape drink that looked and popped corks like champagne, yet did not violate the Navy ban on shipboard alcohol...