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...team is cosmopolitan enough to stage its own Olympics. Its members hall from England, Ireland, Nigeria, and Greece as well as 21 states, including Alaska...
...Boston demonstration was part of a series that took place in New York. Detroit, San Francisco, England, and Nigeria. In New York, 500 demonstrators gathered outside the main entrance of the Chase Manhattan Bank while 44 others were arrested for blocking one of the exits. When police tried to remove them, the picketers went limp and had to be dragged away...
...opponents are subjected to courtroom complexities. The regime announced that Dr. Joseph Danquah, 69, the distinguished scholar and early nationalist leader who ran against Nkrumah in the 1960 presidential election, had died in a detention camp. A heart attack, an official spokesman blandly explained, but in nearby Nigeria the newspapers were full of allegations of death by torture. Snapped Nigeria's President Nnamdi Azikiwe, an old friend of Danquah: "If independence means the substitution of indigenous tyranny for alien rule, then those who struggled for independence have not only desecrated the cause of freedom but have betrayed their peoples...
...worth $750 million in 19 countries from Thailand to Senegal. Another U.S. firm, Robert S. McMillan Associates, has been in Rome only two years but already has won contracts for an 8,000-student university in Iran, a mosque in Tanzania and a series of military-training centers in Nigeria. The newest entry, McGaughy, Marshall, McMillan & Lucas, had specialized in overseas work for the U.S. armed forces for ten years before it established headquarters in Rome in late 1963 and shifted its emphasis to needs of emerging nations. The shift has paid off. McGaughy is working on the plan...
...goals in the Commonwtalth--Canada hosted the Third Commonwealth Education Conference in Ottawa, where delegations from all over the Commonwealth met to review common problems. Nigeria called for "an increase in the number of teachers, going to developing countries." (Britain provides 5,000 teachers as against 17,000 from France.) India regretted that the goal of 1,000 Commonwealth scholarships had not yet been reached. Canada proposed an educational "peace corps" to attack illiteracy in emerging nations...