Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urging of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, the antagonists in Nigeria's 14-month-old civil war assembled in Addis Ababa last week to talk peace once again. Three previous meetings, the most recent three months ago in Kampala, had come to nothing. This time Ethiopia's venerable Lion of Judah told his guests, who represented the federal government in Lagos and the Biafra secessionists: "You cannot afford to fail. You must succeed. There is no alternative." Then he added: "We would like to appeal to you earnestly to refrain from polemics." Both appeals went unheeded...
...point from Haile Selassie himself. "There is no precedent for a people being victim of such injustice and being at present threatened by abandonment to its aggressor," he said. "It is in order to denounce to the civilized world the tortures inflicted upon my people that I resolved to come to-Geneva." He was quoting the Emperor's plea to the League of Nations in 1936, after Mussolini's troops had overrun Ethiopia. "I was defending the cause of all small people who are threatened by aggression," Ojukwu went on, still quoting his host. "It is us today...
...Defense Command, which is responsible for tracking earth-circling traffic, counts more than 1,300 objects in orbit. These have included not only satellites but last-stage boosters, drifting bolts, and an astronaut's glove and camera. By the immutable laws of gravity, all must one day come plunging down toward earth...
...community, Franconia's once sympathetic board of trustees demanded the resignation of President Ruopp, an Oxford-educated Methodist minister and philosophy teacher who came to the college in 1963. Explains Board Member Philip Robertson: "It was an experiment that had run away with itself. A man would come up to me on the street and say, 'I hear you're running a whorehouse up there...
...accept the idea as a fait accompli," says Education Minister Brian Lenihan, "they will begin to concentrate on how better to make it work." The fact that the merger could be proposed at all, without creating a religious civil war, is an impressive measure of how far Ireland has come in burying its angry past...