Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, who last month intercepted eleven truckloads of Chinese weapons being smuggled from Tanzania to Uganda (TIME, June 4), was least interested of all. In unmistakably tart tones an official Kenya government communiqué declared: "It is not clear to the Kenya government what type or form of revolution the Chinese Prime Minister has in mind. But the Kenya government wishes it to be known that Kenya intends to avert all revolutions irrespective of their origins or whether they come from inside or are influenced from outside...
Only the hidebound Istiqlal Party opposed the royal move, and its objections were, typically, embedded in a 3,000-word communiqué that was both verbose and confused. The other parties, mostly leftist and vaguely socialist, backed the King with a few reservations because they were sympathetic to the idea of authoritarian rule. Speaking for the financial community, Casablanca's daily Maroc-Informations said that businessmen "will be able to talk cogently with men of real authority now that the parliamentary masquerade is ended...
...other hand, Shastri played neatly into Moscow's hands by signing a joint communiqué that demanded immediate cessation of American bombing in North Viet Nam. Explaining the vague communiqué to reporters, Shastri claimed that the Kutch dispute was not mentioned because Russia did not want to interfere with British diplomatic efforts at settling the squabble. The joint silence over Red China's latest atomic explosion, he said, reflected "a neutral attitude...
...meeting took place in the Moroccan resort town of Saïdia, which lies just across the River Kiss from Algeria. Under such circumstances, it could hardly have failed. A mellow joint communiqué announced that the two old pals had discussed Algerian-Moroccan relations and had arrived at "identical views." To commemorate their new-found fraternity, in fact, they decided to build a bridge across the Kiss. Its name will be Encounter Bridge...
Whether Kasavubu could get away with it was a good question, for Tshombe was far more powerful than any of his predecessors had ever been. Minutes after Kasavubu's announcement, Tshombe's tough Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo issued his own communiqué: Tshombe would not allow himself to be fired, intended to stay in office at least until the new National Assembly is seated June...