Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forest of Banners. What bothered Mobutu was the dangerous direction in which the struggle had been leading the nation. Police Boss Victor Nendaka had begun banning anti-Kasavubu newspapers and mounting a hate-campaign that seemed to aim toward Tshombe's arrest. Worse, to gain leftist support, Kasavubu had restored relations with the Peking-oriented Brazzaville Congo across the river, was cozying up to Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, and had promised to kick out the white mercenary troops that were the muscle of Mobutu's Congolese army...
...said the University is not seeking a specific site for the Design School, but "we are always looking at and analyzing properties offered by realtors to Harvard." If another site were made available, the Design School would have to gain approval of the new location from the federal government...
...source of the extremist' power, but there are other sources. The rising tide of African nationalism is one. Another is the fact that the majority of the Africans in Rhodesia are relatively poor in relation to the Europeans. An extremist can often convince Africans that they have everything to gain and nothing to lose by an immediate take-over of the government...
...Crimson with five interceptions this season, was selected for first-team honors on the All-East defensive team. He was one of five Ivy Leaguers named to that team. Diamond, elected to the second-team offense, was the only other Crimson player to gain an All-East berth...
After 162 years of colonial rule, British Guiana will soon be going its own independent way. In London last week, following 17 days of talks with Guianese leaders, Colonial Secretary Anthony Greenwood announced that the small South American colony will gain its independence...