Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning of the first day of independence, terrorists killed five people in the capital of Yaounde, and the foreign dignitaries who streamed in by air at Douala the day before could see the ruins of the control tower ransacked by another insurgent gang. In six months of struggle 22 whites have died-more than were killed in a similar period during the Mau Mau war in Kenya-and 500 or more Africans...
...save the country. If you think this is bad, go to Iran or other countries where martial law is really in force. Compared to them, Pakistan is a paradise." But he was equally tough to another questioner, who feared elections might bring the return to power of the old gang of corrupt politicians. "If you don't want democracy, what do you want?" demanded Ayub. "Do you want me to sit on your head all the time...