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Joining Erland on the first team were Massachusetts' Julius Erving, Bob Kissane of Holy Cross, Jim O'Brien of Boston College, and Ernie DeGregorio of Providence...
...Richard Nixon like Julius Caesar? According to Author Theodore H. White (The Making of The President), Nixon faces the same temptation to transcend the law of the land. Before a rehearsal of his first play, Caesar at the Rubicon, at Princeton University's McCarter Theater, owlish politicophile White, 55, noted that Caesar's problems "were reborn with the American Constitution. We were the first republic under the law since Rome." Within five years after crossing the Rubicon, said White, "Caesar had become dictator and god, master of the world. He had placed himself outside...
...Canadian Protestants arrive in the Black African enclave of Swaziland to set up a 100,000-watt radio transmitter. Farther north in Tanzania, Maryknoll priests and nuns work side by side in the fields with peasants, then help train native leaders for the new communal villages of President Julius Nyerere's socialist state. Wycliffe Bible Translators in South Viet Nam, who lived in Montagnard villages well before American G.I.s came, produce nine new written languages from the native dialects, with more to come...
Radical Posture. Mostly it is a shortage of native clergy and technical help that persuades most Third World leaders to accept missionaries from Europe and North America, though some leaders attach special provisos to their invitations. Under the bootstrap socialism of Tanzania, President Julius Nyerere, a Roman Catholic, has required the missionaries to pitch in to rebuild the society. On a quiet visit to the U.S. recently, Nyerere slipped up to Maryknoll headquarters near New York City to lecture nuns on the role of missions in developing countries. One of Nyerere's suggestions, already adopted by missionaries in some...
Obote, en route home from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference, took refuge in Dar es Salaam, capital of neighboring Tanzania. His host, President Julius Nyerere, denounced the coup as "an act of treason to the whole course of African progress." It may also have an adverse effect on the East African Community, a common market that Uganda shares with Tanzania and Kenya. Obote accused Amin of corruption and chicanery, blamed the takeover on the Israelis (who help train Uganda's armed forces) and vowed that he would go home as President. It was far more likely, however, that...