Word: european
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of the renewed fighting it received an unexpected boost from President Charles de Gaulle. In a communiqué, the French government declared that the conflict should be settled "on the basis of the right of peoples to govern themselves"-the first such commitment favoring Biafra by a European nation. "This strengthens our hand at Addis," exclaimed Biafran Information Minister Ifegwu Eke. "And if the talks break down, our African friends will be prepared to take the issue to the United Nations." Only four African nations-Zambia, Ivory Coast, Tanzania and Gabon-have so far recognized Biafra...
...offensive, and towns like Aba, Owerri and Umuahia were choked with the homeless, the destitute and the starving. Yet somehow the Biafrans continued to hold on against superior forces and firepower, training with sticks, fighting back with the motley array of weapons they have managed to pick up from European arms markets in recent months. They fared less well on another front: there was still no agreement on relief measures for starving Biafrans. As a result, hundreds, perhaps thousands died every day, and their plight reached even into the U.S. presidential campaign. Senator Eugene McCarthy charged that the Administration...
Restricted in the amount of dollars and foreign earnings that they can invest in their international operations, U.S. companies have been finding new sources of capital on European money markets. Last week the Government reported that U.S. corporations figure to borrow, or arrange to borrow, more than $3 billion abroad this year. Because of their success in arranging loans such as these, the total U.S. corporate investment abroad this year is expected to surpass the $10.2 billion it totaled in 1967-without increasing the dollar outflow...
Heavy Hand. Thos. Cook & Son is now trying to change that image. This fall, through an exclusive link-up with British European Airways, it will initiate "Silver Wing Tours," offering a choice of low-cost package tours to no fewer than 97 vacation spots. The minimum price will be $89.60 for a 14-day trip from London to Mallorca and back, including lodging, meals and free information that can be gained from Cook's expert agency. Cook's expects to pick up 250,000 to 300,000 customers for such inclusive tours...
When General Sherman explains that his war is different fsom European wars because "we are fighting a hostile people whereas they fought among armies," this is not a scholarly, but, ultimately, a complete analysis of the reasons for which the Civil War is regarded as the first modern war. Sherman's march was the first "strategic rape" and it took a poet to explain it in those perfect words so the political scientists could adopt it later as a crude hypothesis to be refined. Both accounts are equally important, but Babe as a playwright is justified in only employing...