Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President John Kennedy had dispatched Brother Bobby to the Ivory Coast as a gesture of friendship to one of Africa's most European-minded rulers: President Félix Houphouet-Boigny. The Ivory Coast was celebrating its first anniversary of independence after more than a century of French rule. Arriving in Abidjan, capital of the New Mexico-sized nation of coffee and cocoa plantations, Attorney General Kennedy was met at an airport reception with red carpet and tribal dances. Manfully (since he facetiously says that it took him eight years to complete second-year French in school). Bobby Kennedy...
...Hundreds of millions of people will perish" in a new war. he proclaimed early in the week, almost incoherent with excitement, as he waved his arms at a "friendship" rally in the Kremlin for Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, visiting boss of Red Rumania. "There will be no open cities, no front, no rear, if nuclear bombs are unleashed." Khrushchev brutally promised to send rockets raining on Italy's orange groves if war came; he had also included Britain in his target area, and now, to the mocking laughter of the satellite sycophants around him, said, "As you know, the roar...
...message was obviously intended to have a special evangelical appeal to the new nations of Africa and Asia still struggling for independence or economic success; paragraph after paragraph assured the "poor, struggling peoples" of Russia's support and socialism's sympathy. But along with the promise of friendship went a warning. The nationalism of emergent nations, said Khrushchev, may be "historically justified" as a reaction against "imperialist " oppression," but "national narrow-mindedness does not disappear automatically with the establishment of the socialist system." Translation: The kind of nationalism that opposes the U.N. in Africa is quite all right...
...thinks, 'Look at that fool on the bike. Let's stay away from him.' " Bicycling gives the riders a strong sense of independence. "You're a free agent," says Bragdon. "It's a gesture of self-determination. I meet lots of people and our friendship lasts for about 20 blocks. It's a microcosm of the city...
...lead a united Mahgreb of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, presumably felt the need to demonstrate to the F.L.N. and to the Arab world generally that he is no "imperialist lackey," but can be as anticolonialist and as pan-Arab as anyone. Furthermore, Bourguiba's earnest and devoted friendship seemed to have gotten him nowhere with France, while the F.L.N.'s intransigeance promised to succeed brilliantly...