Word: gambia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rush to rid itself of the weight of empire, Britain has often bestowed independence on lands that had no business accepting it. Botswana, for example, is an empty but now sovereign desert, Gambia a wriggle of jungle riverbank, and the Maldives a spatter of coral atolls mostly inhabited by starfish. Few lands, however, have been so ill-prepared to rule themselves as the Federation of South Arabia, which Britain announced last week will become independent by the end of November...
They're a pleasure to watch--the short stocky Gomez from Gambia and the tall, lean Bogovich from Yugoslavia. Together they can probably do all that can be done with or to a soccer ball...
...marketing of bicycles and building materials, and sell telecommunications equipment and earth-moving machinery. In a way, Unilever is as powerful as a nation. The largest employer in tropical Africa, it has 61,500 workers, who in turn support 300,000 dependents-totaling more than the population of Gambia...
...stability of some of his peers is based on flimsier stuff. Gambia, which gained its freedom only last year, is too new and too tiny to give Prime Minister David Kairaba Jawara immediate cause for concern. French troops keep Gabon's President Léon Mba propped up in return for rights to his nation's uranium deposits. In Malawi, Prime Minister Hastings Banda is a demagogue who has banned everything except starvation, remains arrogant only because his army numbers only 800 men and is still commanded by British officers who are happy with the status...
Once in business, a new nation must establish embassies around the globe and send a mission to the U.N.-tasks that frequently exhaust both their finances and talent. Occasionally a new nation admits that it just cannot afford the overhead; although it is a U.N. member, Gambia has no U.N. mission, told the Assembly it might not be able to afford the minimum annual U.N. club fee of $40,000. The Maldive Islands near Ceylon are so poor that the U.N. must forward their mail through the Maldivian Philatelic Agency, located in Manhattan down the street from Macy...