Word: communal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instead of into theirs. The blacks feel that Asians do not open their businesses to capable young Africans, and that they invest their money abroad or send it to relatives. In Kenya, the KANU party of President Kenyatta has scolded the Asians for living out their lives in "a communal cocoon, having only the most superficial contact with their fellow inhabitants." A barefooted Tanzanian farmer, cheering anti-Asian demonstrations earlier this month, expressed the deep-seated African feeling that the Asians are taking what should belong to the Africans. Said he: "There are too many ticks on the lion...
...care about China's future and want to bring it into the modern world of comparative well-being and technology, the revolution threatens to sweep all the painful achievements of nearly 20 years into the dustbin and consign China to a dark age of mindless communal litanies and Mao sun worshiping. To the men in the governments of the provinces far from the Politburo battles of Peking, the revolution brings trainloads of Red Guards usurping their authority and rocking tidy little boats that have been carefully caulked over the years...
Imaginary Line. For all the gloom, there was one bright spot last week. A Sikh state was officially created out of a part of Punjab, and its birth brought forth none of the communal rioting that had earlier been feared. The new state marked the end of a 19-year campaign by India's 7,000,000 Sikhs for a territory of their own. Jawaharlal Nehru resisted the demand mainly on the ground that such a state would be essentially a religious entity. But the Sikhs argued that they were the only ones among India's 14 major...
...cold, grey rain pelted the turrets of Wormwood Scrubs as the 320 prisoners of D block began their nightly "free-association period." Inmates gathered in the block's communal hall to watch the telly or drifted into one another's open cells for an hour and a half of convivial chatter before lights-out. Favorite gathering place for D block's intellectuals was a cozy yellow-and-primrose-painted cell with a 100-book library, a Bokhara rug and a medieval print of St. Paul. There, over coffee and aphorisms, Convicted Spy George Blake conducted his soir...
...city and stormed toward the airport, seeking Ibo blood. At the site of the huge Kainji Dam on the Niger, six Ibo bodies were scattered in the dirt, and at least 50 more Ibos were badly injured. In such Northern towns as Jos and Samaru, Zaria and Maiduguri, communal violence raged with the intensity of last May's infamous "Ibo hunt." By week's end, confirmed deaths stood...