Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saying: "He who tries to eat before the others burns himself." Chief rival for the power of the mercurial Kasavubu is Patrice Lumumba, 33, onetime postal clerk in Stanleyville who served six months in jail in 1958 for embezzling $2,400 in postal money. He was arrested again after nationalist riots last November in which more than 20 were killed. Released from a Congo jail three weeks ago to lead his Congolese National Movement delegation at Brussels, he arrived proudly showing wrists bandaged from wearing tight handcuffs...
Abed with a back ailment last autumn, President Carlos Garcia had ample time to ponder the stunning election defeats his Nationalist a Party candidates had suffered in the major cities. By all accounts, a major crisis of conscience occurred, for the more sophisticated city voters (whose votes cannot as easily be bought as in the rural barrios) were protesting the Garcia government's record of influence-peddling, nepotism and mismanagement. "Will my grandchildren think I was a good President?" Garcia asked an aide. Manila cynics suggested that another question was running through his mind: Will the voters think...
Funny, Aren't They? At a civic luncheon, he sought to discourage the nationalist's desire to secede from the federation, while assuring all concerned that he had deep sympathy for their "aspirations for self-government." As loudspeakers carried his words outside, 2,000 Africans bearing antifederation placards began to grow restless. Finally, a black policeman snatched one of the placards, and the trouble began. It quickly became a scene out of Evelyn Waugh: below, the blacks screamed and police flailed; on the hotel veranda above, Europeans calmly went on sipping their gins and whiskies...
...swift has been the pace of nationalist pressure in the Belgian Congo, and so harsh its violence, that by last week shaken Belgian leaders (who a few years ago boasted that their economic paternalism would long postpone political freedom) were resigned to an offer of full independence for the Congolese this year. At a round-table conference with 81 African delegates in Brussels, the Belgians agreed to a timetable calling for elections beginning May 16 to choose a Congolese Parliament, to be followed by a declaration of independence on June...
...calm down." The attacks whined to a standstill like a stopped phonograph record. In Washington, a report of the Central Intelligence Agency, in effect the most authoritative official U.S. appraisal of Castro, called him "not a Communist and certainly not an anti-Communist," but a violently anti-American nationalist being used by the Communists in an "intense" drive on Latin America. In Latin America, where Castro's prestige has been shrinking because of this fact, Ike's statement was cheered as wise handling of the problem...