Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three months black-gowned agents loitered over Armand's bookstalls, in the Paris suburbs of Fontenay-sous-Bois, watching their prey. Others, pretending to collect alms in the neighborhood, used minicameras to photograph his visitors. D.S.T. men with movie cameras filmed his regular rendezvous with another man in Paris' lonely Rue Botzaris. They noticed that before each clandestine meeting he chalked the letter k on a nearby wall...
...road to freedom, and this desire is also present amongst the Bantu people of the Union." He was speaking last week in behalf of a bill-"a God-given task"-that would ostensibly grant that freedom to the Bantus by setting up what will eventually become eight separate black states, which presumably would gradually become more and more nearly self-governing. The Prime Minister himself compared the arrangement to the British Commonwealth of independent nations, looked after but not ruled by a benevolent mother country...
...What will happen." said he, "if there are black commissioners of police, black generals of the army, black air vice marshals?" Far better would be to partition the country up into black and white units. "I would have no hesitation in choosing a smaller white state [in which] the white man would be able to control his own destiny. This I would prefer, whatever the tribulations might be." Soon after, the bill sailed through...
Fair Division. World Bank President Eugene Black welcomed the idea, and both New Delhi and Karachi accepted the bank's good offices. But years of hard work failed to temper nationalistic passions. Suggestion after suggestion fell through; scheme after scheme foundered in a sea of mutual antagonism. Doggedly, the World Bank continued its efforts, and last month in Washington won agreement from India and Pakistan to a fair division of the water flow until March...
President Black, accompanied by his top aides, flew to New Delhi with fresh proposals aimed at a final settlement. If both sides could agree, the World Bank would help raise the estimated $600 million needed to put the plan into operation. One stumbling block is that India would have to put up a substantial part of the funds to build link canals and reservoirs in Pakistan to replace water that India diverted for itself. Still, as Black knew, New Delhi and Karachi are tired of a decade of bitterness, and some Indians and Pakistanis, watching Red China's actions...