Word: governed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zanzibar, where 75% of the world's fragrant clove supply is bought and sold, the British protectorate was pushing ahead to hold elections for a new government that will govern its own internal affairs. Kenyan and Ugandan politicians were already campaigning for their elections, which will enable both territories to claim the rights of self-government. There was a minor check a fortnight ago when Buganda's Frederick ("King Freddie") Mutesa II seceded from Uganda and declared Buganda's independence. Nobody noticed much change. Yawned one official: "The Baganda seem to be pretending that they have independence...
Most TV drama is atrociously written, but considering the obstacles, it is remarkable that any of it gets written at all. Testifying before the FCC last week, the elders of the advertising profession reported on the infinitely detailed sponsors' commandments that govern TV's script carpenters. Samples...
Time for Action. Australia was swept by the kind of outrage that followed the 1932 Lindbergh kidnaping in the U.S. "This case." said the Sydney Daily Telegraph, "must never be closed until the killers are behind bars or the govern ment puts into action - on the gallows - the overwhelming inclinations of the people." New South Wales's Labor government is dead set against capital punishment, but at week's end Premier Heffron promised to consider "drastic increases" in the state's maximum kidnaping penalty of ten years. Public pressure was building up for Australia's national...
...people of Congo were incompetent to govern, Kanza argued, "the first reproach must go to those who trained us." The Belgians ruled the Congo for 80 years without educating a single Congolese doctor or engineer. "Only eight years ago," said Kanza, "I was the first to leave Congolese territory to go through higher education." He might have pointed out that the actual casualties are far fewer than the headlines would suggest. Those killed were mostly soldiers from both sides and numbered twelve whites and 79 Congolese...
...party won 142 out of 312 seats in the federal Parliament. Already Premier of the Northern Region, he wants no national office, with feudal condescension describes the new federal Prime Minister, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, as "my deputy." But Sir Abubakar, who is British-educated and will govern through what looks like a workable coalition with the non-Moslem eastern region, has gained major stature of his own, has gradually established his leadership of the new territory in fact as well as name...