Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Nyerere's near disaster demonstrated more pointedly than anything else is that even the leader of a strong one-party state cannot enforce his decisions so long as his army disagrees. For the most part, Africa's armies are small and politically uninformed. But political awareness seems...
Rumbles of Disorder. The crises that Nyerere had always expected developed quickly. First came the threatened resignation of 600 British civil servants, desperately needed to run the government until Africans could be trained to replace them. They were angry because their "golden handshake"-the severance pay of up to $28...
Haven for Rebels. What does Nyerere's experience portend for the future of emerging Africa? One of the few heartening lessons in his brush with disaster was the O.A.U.'s willingness to forgive him. Nyerere, after all, is a leader in African unity, permits his capital to be...
The law is, perhaps, an inevitable ex tension of the long-established French practice of proxy marriage. Napoleon used the Archduke Charles in Vienna as his stand-in at the altar with Marie Lou ise of Austria, while the Emperor stayed comfortably in Paris. And proxy marriages between soldiers and...
One of Prime Minister Pearson's first acts when he took office last year was to appoint a Royal Commission on Biculturalism to recommend ways to develop "the basis of equal partnership." But feelings run deep, and, partly spurred by the rise of Charles de Gaulle's France...