Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turbaned Alhaji Ahmadu, leader of the Northern People's Congress; and Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, who made a spectacular entrance clad in a bright blue satin blouse, a draped skirt with a ten-yard train and a straw boater bedecked with 2-ft.-high feathers. Conspicuously absent was Eastern Leader Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, the flashy, U.S.-educated Ibo tribesman who had fancied himself rather than Balewa as the Federation's first Prime Minister...
...rebel force harrying the Colomb-Béchar Express is only one of a number of Algerian guerrilla bands which have long operated in and out of neighboring Morocco and Tunisia. Last week on Algeria's eastern border, a patrol of the French Army's 26th Motorized Infantry Regiment, ambushed by a small band of Algerian guerrillas, chased its attackers 300 yards inside Tunisia. When Tunisian troops tried to intervene, the French killed six Tunisians as well as six Algerians. In response to an indignant protest from the Tunisian government, French Commander in Chief in Algeria, General Raoul...
...refused. While two rebel navy planes circled overhead, the rebels charged, and after a vicious fight that littered the street with dead, the building fell. By noon rebels controlled the city-the first such feat they have been able to pull off since last November, when they held the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba for a few hours in a badly timed prelude to Castro's seaborne invasion from Mexico. It was also the first big show of strength outside the Santiago area, where rebel sentiment is strongest. Most important, it was the first time that some...
...part of what he wanted. Dr. Willard F. Libby, scientist-commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, wired him that the AEC will explode this week a smallish atomic charge 800 ft. below the surface of a Nevada mountainside. Libby told the time (Sept. 14, 10 a.m. Eastern daylight-saving time) and place (North 890600 and East 635000 on the Nevada state grid system). If there is a delay of more than two minutes in firing the shot. the test will be postponed for 24 hours...
Across the sun-dappled campus of Ohio's Oberlin College, Eastern Orthodox patriarchs in flowing robes and beards strolled alongside Baptist ministers in business suits and Salvation Army officers in uniform. All were delegates to the North American Conference of Faith and Order convening last week for eight days of open-minded probing and discussion of Christendom's most elusive quest-church unity. Participating were 289 delegates representing 34 Protestant denominations and five Eastern Orthodox bodies...