Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conditions for independence than was Harold Wilson able to compromise them. The terms are the minimum Wilson feels necessary not only on moral grounds but to prevent a Labor Party revolt that could topple his government-not to mention a walkout of African nations that could wreck the Commonwealth. He insists that Rhodesia's whites guarantee "unimpeded progress" toward majority rule by the blacks, who outnumber them 18 to 1, and that approval of independence be demonstrated by the vote of a majority of Rhodesians, both white and black...
...world at large, English is the language of some 300 million Britons, Canadians, Australians and Americans, and the international means of expression for 700 million present and former denizens of the Commonwealth. By comparison, French is native to only 65 million Belgians, French, Swiss and Luxembourgeois, besides being the second tongue for 140 million residents of present and former French and Belgian colonies. In a recently concluded U.N. debate, 56 speakers addressed the General Assembly in English, 27 in French...
...while the U.S. is only down to 9.4 per 1,000. Malaria has been completely wiped out. Tuberculosis has been cut to 5% of its former incidence, and intestinal parasitic disease to 10%. The health budget is up to $70 million, or 21% of total Commonwealth spending (only education takes more, with 31%). And much of the credit for improving the island's health goes to Dr. Arbona himself...
...little western mountain town of Maricao, he escaped the capital-city fixation that besets so many Latin American physicians. He resented the fact that in 1934 San Juan had 35% of the island's doctors while most of the communities had none. Working his way up through the Commonwealth's health department, Dr. Arbona spent years organizing Puerto Rico's scattered towns and villages into five medical regions, each with a modern medical center...
...officially committed to maintaining British bases east of Suez, is also pondering the question while preparing a defense White Paper due next spring. With both parties agreed in principle on the need for some reworking of the "thin red line," the new thinking may well produce repercussions throughout the Commonwealth, Europe and the entire Atlantic community...