Word: benin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign correspondents in the previous year, and the rate has probably increased since then. Nigeria has booted out nearly all resident foreign journalists; the last Reuters man there was put into a dugout canoe with his wife and eight-year-old daughter and advised to start rowing toward neighboring Benin...
Other appealing candidates stand only the barest chance in the voting. One is Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, 56, a black priest from Benin (formerly Dahomey), who was consecrated bishop 21 years ago by Pius XII. A tall, gentle man, quick to smile, he is now prefect of the Commission on Justice and Peace. Another is Britain's George Basil Cardinal Hume, 55, a Benedictine monk who in 1976 was plucked from obscurity as Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey to become Archbishop of Westminster. Hume's relative youth and inexperience are likely to count negatively with the pragmatic Cardinals...
...stationed on the continent. In addition to the army-size units in Angola (20,000 troops) and Ethiopia (17,000 troops), there are contingents in Mozambique, the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Libya and Tanzania. A sprinkling of civilian technicians and medical specialists is also scattered in Algeria, Benin, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome and Principe...
...final resolution was a compromise between the council's five Western members (the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany and Canada) and their three counterparts from Africa (Benin, Libya and Mauritius), representing the U.N.'s 49-nation African group.* Earlier in the week, the U.S., Britain and France all vetoed African efforts to impose economic sanctions against Pretoria-a step that would have caused real damage not only to South Africa but also to the Western powers and many smaller nations that trade with it. In the end, the African members settled for a permanent arms embargo. The Western...
...assessment of the policy is no better than mixed if Carter's aim is to ease the plight of those suffering rights abuses. In some nations?South Korea, the Philippines, Benin, Chile, Iran and Argentina?a number of dissenters have begun receiving slightly fairer treatment. But elsewhere there has been either no relaxation or?as in the Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Rumania?there have been new repressive crackdowns...