Word: counterweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Communist bloc, and plans were made for a hookup with Europe's six-nation Common Market. As their next step, the conferees decided to seek some kind of affiliation with huge Nigeria and rubber-rich Liberia. If this came off, West Africa would have a powerful counterweight to the noisy, elbowing radicals of Ghana and Guinea...
Some of the European powers, though ready to continue the U.N. game, now talk about some new Atlantic alliance that could serve as a counterweight. Charles de Gaulle dismisses the U.N. as "ce machin" (that thingumabob). France has stubbornly refused to contribute any support to the Congo operation. Britain has never felt the same about the U.N. since Suez. Last week Paul-Henri Spaak, who was the first president of the U.N. Assembly in 1946, declared himself "disillusioned" by the way the U.N. was trending-as well he might, being Belgian. "The Assembly now wants to use force to solve...
...F.L.N.'s flirtation with the Communists, who are eagerly pouring money and munitions into the Algerian war. It could also be a step toward Bourguiba's long-cherished but unlikely dream of a federation of the North African nations-Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Morocco-that would be a counterweight to Nasser's U.A.R...
Puffed Candle. That did not keep Kassem from making new efforts to establish himself as a counterweight to the U.A.R.'s Nasser within the Arab League. Last week, at Kassem's invitation, Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba rejoined the councils of the Arab League; he walked out in a huff two years ago on the straightforward ground that Nasser had tried to have him assassinated...
...major forces in Africa. Nigeria's dynamic U.N. Ambassador Jaja Wachuku is chairman of Dag Hammarskjold's Congo Conciliation Commission. A number of African nations, notably those of the French Community, are beginning to sidle up to Nigeria in visible relief at the emergence of a counterweight to the firebrands of Ghana and Guinea. And Abubakar himself has begun the wheeling and dealing abroad expected of a sovereign nation's leader; at last week's end he headed for London to mull over Commonwealth problems with Harold Macmillan, stopped off en route to discuss the Algerian...