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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that which the Tanganyikan troops had asked for. When Prime Minister Apollo Milton Obote sent his Internal Affairs Minister to negotiate, they arrested him as well. But Obote had learned from Nyerere's experience. He sent police to secure the Owen Falls dam and thus cut the main highway from Jinja to Kampala. Then, swallowing his pride, the man who had often ranted against "colonialists" and "imperialists" called for British aid. Within the hour, 450 troops from the Staffordshire Regiment and the Scots Guards were winging in from Kenya. As they took positions at the Entebbe airport...
...Brigadier Patrick Sholto Douglas, the deposed commander of the Tanganyika Rifles, the commandos burst through the main gate and began hurling "Thunder Flashes"-noisy firecrackers used in training to simulate mass attack. Douglas shouted in Swahili for the 800 mutineers to surrender. When they refused, the commandos slammed a 3.5-in. bazooka rocket through the barracks, blasting out windows and peeling back most of the roof. Three Riflemen were killed and 20 wounded, while 400 were captured. The rest, many in pajamas or underwear, headed for the bush. Julius Nyerere was back in power however tentatively. But his country would...
...Khrushchev in particular, further cuts in nuclear and conventional forces would conveniently ease a shortage of manpower and investment capital that has bedeviled his plans to boost output of chemicals and consumer goods. "The main thing we need now," said Foster, "is patience and determination." Scratchy Tsarapkin had a characteristic Red reply: "Any method is good provided you get results...
...main danger in new math is that it may get too rigid as it spreads more widely. Critics also worry about fads, such as "set theory," a broadly unifying pure math concept that children probably cannot handle at a worthwhile level. But no one is talking about going back to old math. U.S. mathematical literacy can no longer be considered, as Robert Davis puts it, "a matter of God and heredity...
Flames curled through a straw-and-cloth effigy hanging in the main square of normally sedate Saint John, New Brunswick. Hundreds of onlookers gathered to watch the fire and to argue about the object of their anger: Kenneth Colin Irving, the richest man, the biggest landholder and the most contentious entrepreneur in Canada's Maritime Provinces...