Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hero of Tanganyika's advance, black and white agree, is 38-year-old Julius Nyerere, a cheerful, toothbrush-mustached former schoolteacher whose fight for independence has made him Tanganyika's-and East Africa's-foremost African leader. "Uhuru!" (Freedom), screamed 5,000 of his supporters as they lifted Nyerere to their shoulders and draped him with garlands of flowers after the Governor's announcement in the Legislative Council. All that night, green-shirted members of his Tanganyika African National Union danced in the streets and sang party hymns. For once, colonial officials did not need...
...suggestion, conveniently ruled that it was just a matter of obeying the law against selling books in a classroom. Should Teacher Russell then be disciplined? Some 35 teachers at U.C.L.A. and Santa Monica City College rose to her defense in an angry petition charging "a breach of academic freedom." Said Florence Russell: "If reminding students of their rightful literary heritage is an offense, then I have offended. I refuse to accept blame for anything else...
Died. Soumay Tcheng, 65, petite, irrepressible Chinese patriot who spent her life fighting for the freedom of China and the emancipation of women, became China's first woman lawyer, wife of Wei Tao-ming, Chinese ambassador to the U.S. (1942-46); of cancer; in Los Angeles. At 17 Madame Wei left home to join Sun Yat-sen's exiled Kuomintang Party in Japan, returned to help plot the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty. She carried secret messages and bombs in a suitcase, held revolutionary meetings in her own home, even though her father was a prominent figure...
Self-control was not the Pope's solution. "There are necessary limitations to the freedom of the press," he said. "And these limitations should be strictly determined on the basis of law." Beyond that, the Pope proposed an embargo by offended Catholic readers: "Do not buy, do not believe, do not favor, and do not even mention this perverted press...
...guardians of press liberty. Said the nondenominational U.S. weekly, Christian Century: "His statement profoundly disappoints the Christian Century and all who hoped as we did that the personal kindness of the present Pope reflected an attitude of understanding benevolence toward democratic liberties, of which one of the foremost is freedom of the press...