Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the Central Intelligence Agency's covert financing of the National Student Association and other groups was exposed seven weeks ago, Lyndon Johnson reacted with the standard political ploy of appointing a committee to investigate. In this case, at least, the President was not merely taking evasive action. When the committee turned in its report to him last week, Johnson immediately acted on its recommendation that CIA be prohibited by year's end from funding any educational, philanthropic or cultural organization...
...months Nigeria has teetered on the edge of civil war, its fate hinging on relations between two young, untested leaders. Colonel Ojukwu, 33, governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, afraid of a repeat of recent massacres of his fellow Ibo tribesmen, is demanding more legal autonomy from the central military government headed by Colonel Gowon, 32. Ojukwu vows to seize more autonomy whether Gowon approves or not-and last week he took a step in that direction that could produce another bloodbath for Nigeria's 57 million people...
...policies, but he refused to relinquish certain powers, including the power to take over states "in emergencies." When the deadline passed with no further concessions, Ojukwu hit where it hurt most: at Nigeria's treasury. He announced that all taxes formerly collected in his state by the central government in Lagos must henceforth be paid...
Long one of the most dogged congressional critics of the Central Intelligence Agency, Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy, 51, admitted sheepishly to the Women's National Press Club that he now rather hesitates to chastise members of groups bankrolled by the CIA. "I've just found out," he said, "that I'm a member of the board of directors of half a dozen different organizations supported...
...Even the central scenes, sad to say, have been slashed for the sake of speech till nothing of the psychomythical significance remains and very little of the Joyce voice and its whilom Irish music. For those who have the patience and the intellectual equipment to read it, the novel is something very like a revelation; the film is not much more than a titillating tale intoned like the Gospel according to Joyce...