Word: closedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The most severe broadside directed at the electoral process came from the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, Muzorewa's main rival in the election and a colleague of his on the Executive Council that runs the interim government. After the polls closed, Sithole declared the elections a thumping success; within a...
Much as it first breached the Bamboo Curtain of Mao Tse-tung's China in 1971, Ping Pong served the cause of diplomacy last week and opened a crack in the very closed door of another Communist Asian country: North Korea. To the cheers of waving schoolchildren lining scrubbed...
As government grows bigger in England, so does the feeling that England should formally adopt a bill of rights. The Sunday Times victory in the Thalidomide case will at least increase the pressure on Parliament to strengthen the right of free speech. But there are some characteristically British obstacles in...
The Headmaster. Until last July, war had never intruded into the headmaster's district on the Zambian border. There had been no infiltration by guerrillas, no injuries, no abductions, no heavy penetration by the army. He ran the school as he had for a peaceful decade. But then "surveyors...
While the new regime struggled to take hold, the grim details of just how badly one of Africa's relatively prosperous countries had fared under Amin's chaotic rule began to appear. The Ugandan economy had all but collapsed. Factories were closed, agricultural production had virtually stopped, and...