Word: cameroon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WEST CAMEROON Volunteers will teach English, history, geography, math and science in church-operated and government schools throughout West Cameroon...
Nonteaching volunteers wind up as beekeepers in Cameroon, accountants in Afghanistan, architects in Tunisia, fish hatchers in Togo. Two dozen men and women volunteers live in some of the world's most scabrous slums, the hillside favelas outside Rio de Janeiro, where they run medical clinics, teach and do social work. This month, when torrential rains and landslides claimed some 200 favelados' lives in Rio, the Corpsmen helped evacuate stricken families, set up emergency health stations, staffed mass vaccination centers...
...whom?" On the other hand, literacy has curious values. A Cameroon mother was satisfied with the copybook her son showed her after school hours each day as proof that he was learning -until told by a neighbor that the page had not changed for three months and the boy was playing hooky. The mother now wants to read...
...after the anthology had gone to press. At last count there were more than 150 assorted anthems in the world, hailing the glories of every nation from Red China ("Build anew the Great Wall from flesh and blood, arise!") to tiny Liechtenstein ("Where the chamois freely jumps about") and Cameroon ("In barbaric times you lived your early days/But bit by bit you now are leaving savage ways...
Bitter Sugar. Hit hardest are the producers of cocoa, which dropped 45% this year to a postwar low of 120 a Ib. in mid-July, and has rebounded only 10 since then. Brazil, Cameroon, Togo and the Ivory Coast have been hurt, and Nigeria is paying its cocoa growers partly with promissory notes instead of money. Worst battered is Ghana, where cocoa produces 60% of the national income. Because of the price drop and Dictator Kwame Nkrumah's overly ambitious development schemes, the country is struggling with the severest economic crisis in its eight-year history. Factories in Accra...