Word: dakar
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...official citation) against the Nazis in the six-week war of 1940. The armistice with the Germans confronted him with the first of many crises of conscience: Should he support the government of Vichy's Marshal Pétain or switch to De Gaulle and the Allies? Stationed in Dakar, Salan waited four years before joining De Gaulle...
...Jumbo, Fido, Uncle and Chatty, and take it as a matter of course that one wangles the job one wants in the war effort. They are also mostly members of a regiment called the Halberdiers, whose training in the early days of the war and blooding in the Dakar expedition of 1940 are described in Men at Arms (TIME...
...several African students, recently allocated another $330,000 to help African labor unions. Sparking this African program is the controversial Irving Brown, 49, bustling, bespectacled A.F.L.-C.I.O. international representative, who is based in Paris but spends most of his time dashing between such places as Tunis, Lagos. Salisbury, and Dakar. It was Brown, and other trade unionists like him, who offered many an African leader comfort and advice when they were considered dangerous subversives by their colonial mentors. For his efforts. French colonial officials once barred Brown from Algeria. A Tunisian rebel, released after arrest by the French...
...decorated naval veteran who fought vainly for 17 years to clear his name after he was relieved by Winston Churchill as Britain's top admiral in the Mediterranean for allowing six French ships loyal to the Vichy government to slip through the Straits of Gibraltar and sail to Dakar; of pneumonia; in Beaminster, Dorset, England...
...Kayar's berobed village chief, Gurtil N'Doye, Lyndon said: "I came to Dakar for Independence Day festivities because of President Kennedy's deep interest in Africa, but I came to Kayar because I was a farm boy, too, in Texas. It's a long way from Texas to Kayar, but we both produce peanuts and both want the same thing: a higher standard of living for the people." The old chief, proud of the fact that such important visitors had come to his out-of-the-way village, beamed his thanks, suggested that perhaps President...