Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happy enough as they are. The climate is marvelous, the soil fertile, the servants plentiful and the commerce thriving-thanks largely to Commonwealth tariff protection for their goods. Moreover, since Britain has allowed them a free hand in governing themselves since 1923, Rhodesians have no trouble whatsoever in keeping firm control over the colony's 4,000,000 blacks, only 60,000 of whom are even eligible to vote...
...than their charge began to stall. On the outskirts of town, two battalions of Simbas rained mortar, bazooka and machine-gun fire on the commandos. A spearhead led by Hoare's two armored cars finally broke through, but it was two long days before he was in firm control of Baraka, and then only after most of the town had been destroyed. Death toll: five commandos, 215 Simbas...
...must hold firm until North Vietnam takes its hands off the South," Nixon said. "If we negotiate in a way that rewards the aggressor," he warned in an exclusive interview with the CRIMSON, "we may have peace now but a big war in Asia later." The United States, he continued, should seek "that turning point which allows freedom to survive on the perimeter of Asia...
...Cambridge to interview second and third year law students interested in positions with Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, and Alexander, a New York law firm, Nixon spent the last two days in a bloc of six rooms at the Sheraton Commander. More than 80 students applied to spend 20 minutes with the man who was almost President...
...Congo. Although the Congo government itself is now the biggest stockholder in the company's ore-mining subsidiary Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, Premier Moise Tshombe, an old friend of Union Minière, does not interfere with Brussels leadership-a fact that has encouraged the firm to increase its investment at the rate of $20 million a year. The Belgian company still suffers from some political tribulation. In former rebel territory, where ten of its employees were murdered, production of cotton and palm oil has been severely curtailed, and on some plantations has come...