Word: colonialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says vaguely that it needs to be revised, but simply ignores any of its provisions that seem inconvenient. Such gestures as his seizure of Algiers' ultramodern radio station, which the French planned to give to the nation, reflect the Premier's fear of being labeled a "neo-colonialist...
During a state visit last week, the Ivory Coast's President Félix Houphouet-Boigny, whom Touré once called a "colonialist puppet." got red-carpet treatment, including an honor guard of paratroopers dressed in improbable raspberry-colored silk uniforms with floral patterns. Before Houphouet-Boigny left for home, a pretty Guinean girl serenaded him with a song in the Malinké dialect that, though it no doubt loses something in translation, told of her yearning...
...supporters on arrival: "KADU has emerged triumphant and has won out against Kenyatta.'' Old Jomo had a sneering retort: "We would have returned with Kenya's complete independence if it hadn't been for KADU leaders who insisted on taking orders from their colonialist bosses...
...allowed to congratulate the U.S. Government for its firm backing of the U.N. Congo policy despite the political pressure exerted by two powerful colonialist countries...
...that the Security Council has proven itself incapable of acting, the United States must decide whether to push its condemnation of India onto the Assembly floor. Since the anti-colonialist bloc will undoubtedly vote down any motion of censure, the fight seems pointless. But Ambassador Stevenson has rightly emphasized that the real danger in India's resorting to force is the precedent it establishes; in Indonesia, on India's own borders, and in Africa, there are other nations eager to sieze land in the name of anti-colonialism. The United Nations must work some way of checking what may become...