Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...linguist, Pound could read French, German, Italian, Spanish, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Russian. At age 76, he learned Chinese after his appointment as advisor to the Nationalist Government of China...
...develop educational and agricultural resources, Northern Rhodesia is inherently richer than its two neighbors-thanks to fabulous copper reserves that net $336 million a year. A more important cause for optimism is Kenneth Kaunda himself. A teetotaling preacher's son and ex-schoolteacher, Kaunda, 40, is a fiery nationalist who has spent his share of time in British prisons. But he has since convinced his former masters that he has the makings of a moderate African statesman in the mold of Tanganyika's Nyerere. Kaunda advocates a "multiracial society" that will protect the rights of the white minority...
...South Africa's Nationalist Party government ordered a sweeping investigation of the press. Party leaders were annoyed by the tendency of the country's English-language papers, which predominate, to criticize nearly everything the government did. A seven-member press commission was appointed to study such unseemly journalistic behavior, and it was granted a free hand and, ultimately, $500,000 to do the job. Last week, more than 13 years later, the commission finally dropped its findings before Parliament...
Copy sent to the New York Times and TIME was indicted jointly as "inaccurate, frequently dishonest, overpartisan and hostile to South Africa and whites particularly the Afrikaner and the Nationalist Party." Times Correspondent C. S. Sulzberger was rated "100% very bad." Reuters, Ltd., the British wire service, was found guilty of "deliberately hiding the illiteracy and semibarbarism of the mass of the native people." United Press International transmissions rated no higher: "Blindly prejudiced, unscrupulously tendentious." Associated Press reports "had the appearance of having been made for the purpose of conducting a campaign against South Africa and for use in journals...
...Moscow and Petersburg, Lenin swiftly turned nationalist, calling on Russians to defend "the Socialist fatherland...