Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council, he now boycotts its sessions in protest against the kind of equality in which the blacks hold 14 seats to represent 6,000,000 people and the whites have the same number for 60,000. "We offer the Europeans the hand of friendship," he says, "but let them make no mistake about our determination to win our freedom...
...economics) from the University of Edinburgh and the filed teeth of his tribe ("I found them a rather useful and amusing gimmick in college"), Nyerere is a comparative moderate who is willing to wait all of six years for independence from Britain, says of his own future: "When I make a great kelele [Swahili for disturbance], I am cheered to the echo. But when we take over the government, my troubles will begin. It will be but a matter of time before I find that I am unable to deliver the goods I may have promised out of political expediency...
From first to last, Moscow's 21st Communist Party Congress was Nikita Khrushchev's show. It opened with his boast that Russia is first in the firmament, with its Lunik and its "mass-produced" intercontinental rockets, and his seven-year economic plan would make it first on earth. It closed with the cocky boss, an energetic 64, firing some of the roughest and rudest taunts that he has ever let fly at the West. In between, 86 Soviet delegates and 45 representatives of foreign Communist parties paid telling tribute to "the distinguished activity," "the tremendous organizing work...
...Geneva proposals for international nuclear inspection teams, he said that this meant "organization of a full-scale intelligence network of the Western powers on our territory," but nothing of the kind in Western territories because "we do not have any war aims and do not need to make a reconnaissance of their territory...
...Picking up President Eisenhower's press-conference comment on Mikoyan's visit, that "you couldn't do this" with Premier Khrushchev, he exclaimed in mock dismay: "This is something very close to discrimination." He invited Eisenhower to visit the Soviet Union-"and we don't make this invitation conditional on reciprocity; we don't impose our visits on anybody." To Secretary Dulles' observation that the Soviet Union still seeks cold-war victory, he retorted: "Well, Mr. Dulles, if that's what you want, then for the sake of ending the cold...