Word: liberia
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Freeman's disenchantment was compounded by the experience of another friend who, frustrated by stares of contempt and superiority, returned to his native Liberia after just one term at B.U. The boy was crushed to discover intolerence in what he had thought to be the most advanced civilization in the world. Frightened that he might commit suicide if the ubiquitous stares continued, the Liberian returned home...
...Loophole. But on the impetus of their outrage, the Africans were ready to rush through a new proposal produced by Liberia, Ceylon and the U.A.R. It called for the reconvening of the Congolese Parliament under U.N. protection, urged that Congolese army units (of all factions) be "reorganized" (i.e., disarmed), and pressed for the withdrawal from the Congo of Belgian and other foreign troops and political advisers. Most important, the U.N. was authorized to use force "if necessary" to block the Congo's threatened civil...
...over a replacement for Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack. De Sapio seemed to have that election in his pocket. But when Wagner began to remind reluctant councilmen of the patronage at his command, he had surprisingly little trouble. Wagner's choice, Judge Edward Richard Dudley, onetime Ambassador to Liberia (the U.S.'s first Negro ambassador), won the showdown vote in the council...
...forced march - in Africa, Asia, the Middle East- freedom of the press is usually trampled underfoot. Once freed of their countries' colonial occupiers, the new rulers of Africa often modeled them selves not on libertarian standards but on the example of Africa's oldest black republic, Liberia, which has kept the press subjugated for 134 years...
...U.A.R., Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Mali, Ethiopia, Guinea, Liberia...