Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble is that Tshombe's relenting solves no problems except a relatively minor one that he himself managed to raise. The older questions: the hesitant, retreating shadow of colonialism, the constant Soviet imputations of imperialism, the power of the nationalist revolution, the difficulty of development, the danger of subversion, remain, refusing to be scared away even by an unusually tough Secretary-General...
Stopping off in Accra for a few hours talk with Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah-whose lordly behavior makes a strong appeal to nationalist leaders like Lumumba -he flew on to London. A passel of Fascist-minded Mosleyites picketed the Ritz Hotel where Lumumba stopped, and Ghana's High Commissioner in Britain, Sir Edward Asafu-Adjaye, was knocked down by two of the Mosleyites, whose slogan is "Keep Britain White!" Unscathed, as usual, Patrice Lumumba reached New York's Idlewild airport this week. Speaking to a dawn patrol of newsmen, Lumumba said softly that peace in Congo...
Though Russia's Arkady Sobolev routinely charged that the U.S., Britain and France were engaged in a "colonialist conspiracy," in the end Russia was forced to vote for the resolution, which passed 8-0 (Britain, France and Nationalist China abstained). Within hours, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold had the first contingents of a 6,000-man force on their...
...Communist Russia, are all too often inclined to treat any outspoken critic of the regime as a subversive. Reform-minded men, earnestly hoping that corruption and inefficiency can be cleaned up by the Shah before the forces of unrest become explosive, generally fear to speak out. Said one young nationalist, "Personally, I want the Shah to remain as a democratic king, giving powers to duly elected ministers, but I don't think he wants to do it. Meanwhile, the people wait, hour by hour...
...Olympics decathlon trials, Johnson amassed 8,683 points and eclipsed by a fantastic 326 points the world record, set in 1959 by Russia's Vasily Kuznetsov. To do it, Johnson had to beat the best decathlon field ever. Seven men scored more than 7,000 points, and Nationalist China's C. K. Yang, a student at U.C.L.A. and the 1959 U.S. champion, also bettered Kuznetsov's record by 69 points...