Word: clamoring
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...Clamor v. Cry. As far as Kenyatta is concerned, his own KANU supplies about all the opposition he needs, balanced as it is between his own Kikuyus and the Luo tribe of his powerful, Communist-backed Home Minister Oginga Odinga. In a tribal society, Kenyatta argues, the two-party system is unnatural. "We don't subscribe to the notion of the government and the governed in opposition to one another, one clamoring for duties and the other crying for rights." Will one-party government mean repression? For all his terrorist past, Prime Minister Kenyatta, 73, has so far gone...
...tiny Aeronaves de Mexico, have hopefully placed 140 orders for either an American or a British-French supersonic transport. Considering the SST's list of problems, that's quite a bit of hope. Rarely has the development of a new product been more beset by rising costs, clamor and competition...
...tumult and the clamor have been going on ever since Tokyo began rebuilding the wreckage of World War II. But the phons intensified as the Olympics neared. The problem was the low-slung nature of Tokyo itself: a megalopolis covering a radius of about 65 miles, with sidewalkless streets barely broad enough for two rickshas to pass cautiously, most of them lined with open-fronted shoe stores, rice stores, restaurants, confectionaries, raw-fish shops...
...whether COIN'S cost is justified by its advantages over the modified Navy Skyraider propeller planes now being assigned to Viet Nam. He also must consider whether there will be a need for COIN-type aircraft five years from now. On the other hand, there is a rising clamor in the Congress for new and decisive action against the Viet Cong. Thus, while COIN at the moment is a hot topic mainly in the aircraft industry and in the military services, it could easily blow up into a big national debate...
...races apart. No one had an accurate count of the toll, but so far in lagan's strike at least 33 East Indians and Negroes have been killed and more than 2,000 injured. As for Cheddi and his Chicago-born Communist wife Janet, they still clamor for immediate independence from Britain and noisily accuse "American imperialists" of stirring up opposition to their rule...