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...least 25,000 men equipped with artillery and rockets. They control at least 85% of the province and all but 300,000 of its people, and their eventual victory appears assured. Says Ahmed Mohammed Nasser, 32, chairman of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), largest of the three Eritrean nationalist movements: "I cannot tell you what day or what year we will be independent. But I am sure Eritrea will become an independent state. That is why our people are fighting...
...Faction. Senegal's Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, proposed that all black nationalist leaders be given equal OAU endorsement. But other delegates were influenced by Kaunda, whose backing of the Patriotic Front was a dramatic switch from his previous backing of all Rhodesian black nationalist movements. The Zambian leader concluded that OAU support for one faction would make a post-independence fight for political control less likely. He also endorsed Mugabe's argument that majority rule can be won only by armed conflict. Declared Kaunda: "A new Zimbabwe [Rhodesia] can only...
...Nationalist China, the defection to Taiwan last week of Communist Squadron Commander Fan Yuan-yen in his MiG-19 was the best piece of news since the death of Mao Tse-tung nearly a year ago. Radio stations played stirring martial music between special news flashes, and people set off firecrackers in the streets in celebration...
...took off at the head of four aircraft on a routine training mission. Once airborne, he headed for Taiwan. The other planes in his group tried to pursue, but turned back when they saw Nationalist Chinese jets that had been alerted by radar. Fan dipped his wings -the signal Taiwan had broadcast -and his jet was escorted to Tainan...
Back in the days when women, lumped together with criminals and the insane, were disenfranchised and mounted police rode down legal pickets, bonds were formed between the growing women's movement and expanding labor movements. After 1900, nationalist-progressive policies threatened the ordered society. The career of Florence Luscomb, who suceeded radical feminists such as Charlotte Gilman, Jane Addams and Alice Paul, was closely intertwined with both movements. Luscomb has devoted most of her life to jabbing plump and comfortable consciences. She began campaigning for votes for women before World War I, and continued to do so even after...