Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nasser. Yet when Hammarskjold arrived in Cairo, Nasser evasively refused to commit himself to "radio disarmament," but proclaimed to his assembled United Arab States Council: "We will not put down our arms until the occupation forces withdraw from Jordan, Lebanon, Aden, Oman, Algeria and the entire Arab world." In Damascus, the Nasser-controlled newspaper Al Nasr kept up the barrage of hate: "The U.A.R. will be unable to prevent the people of Jordan from battling the loss of their independence after years of martyrdom at the hands of a king who is a deviationist and a traitor and who submerged...
...territory's population of 8,800,000, the British wisely made no attempt to maintain absolute white supremacy as European settlers had tried to do in neighboring Kenya and the Central African Federation. Instead, in a bid for racial harmony, the British allotted each constituency three council seats, one for each of the three major racial groups -Asian, European and African. Every voter, regardless of his color, voted for his choice in all three seats...
...returns came down the mountains by mulepack, slight, mustached Julius Nyerere, 36-year-old head of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), slapped his knees with joy. In every reported result, his TANU African candidates and the Asians and Europeans backed by TANU had swept into the council over the white-led United Tanganyika Party, headed by Sisal Millionaire Stephen Emmanuel...
...dreaming of the day when he might be Tanganyika's first black Prime Minister and needing the cooperation of the Europeans, he has moderated his views recently. London says that independence is a long way off, and the British have assured their continued control of the 67-man council by retaining a majority of seats for their own appointees. But as his followers sang a little hymn to "Bwana Julius Nyerere, that you may continue to seek freedom on our behalf," Nyerere called for responsible self-government in Tanganyika next year, predicted confidently: "Independence will follow as surely...
...Student Council has scheduled for early discussion the perennial question of continued membership in the National Student Association. In some quarters, unfortunately, there is strong feeling that Harvard, like several other Ivy League colleges, does not benefit from the NSA and should therefore withdraw its support...