Word: ara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...massive-shouldered, thick-chested Negro with thighs like tree trunks, Ferguson puts such savage strength into his pile-driving charges that he has been stopped behind the line only three times in three years of bruising Big Ten ball. "He has impossible power," said Northwestern Coach Ara Parseghian after Ferguson ground out nine first downs in Ohio State's 10-0 victory over the Wildcats. "He runs over people who don't bring him down with one or two shots...
...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 would...
...centers," set afire a U.S. consul's car. In Quito, the American embassy was stoned, and 20,000 demonstrators, chanting "Cuba, Rusia y E-cua-dor," marched to a rabble-rousing pep rally led by President José Maria Velasco Ibarra and his pro-Communist Interior Minister Manuel Ara...
...justice is not done to Ecuador, there will be no peace," cried Velasco. "If necessary, we will become allies of Russia," shouted Araújo, and the mob roared back: "Yanqui, no; Rusia...
Though the U.S. was little more than a bystander, it was the obvious target of the mobs, partly because it has become the standard target of Latin leftists, partly because anti-U.S. Interior Minister Araújo was pulling some of the strings. At week's end Araújo found he had gone too far, even for Velasco Ibarra, who announced he had accepted his deputy's "resignation." Unfortunately, Araújo's work could not so easily be erased. The biggest gainers in the land squabble were Fidel Castro and Soviet Russia, who guarantee...