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...Bella of Algeria to a thoughtful critique of communism by President Leopold Senghon of Senegal. Geographically, they deal with Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Ideologically, they include positions from the communism of Mao Tse-tung to the political liberalism of Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Governor-General of Nigeria...
...reasons for the tepid response of the delegates. It is clear the idea of a national service corps lacks the glamour and adventure of the Peace Corps. Innoculating babies in a Philadelphia slum, albeit a desperately needed service, is just not the same thing as innoculating babies in Lagos, Nigeria...
...will spend two years in Nigeria, and will be responsible for the administration of four universities and two secondary schools Saltonstall was asked to assume this position by Sargent Shriver, Director of the Peace Corps...
...Nigeria has survived to become Africa's most conspicuously successful democracy. Its birth pangs were eased by a long tradition of tribal government, and by the solid good sense of many African leaders whom the British groomed for self-rule-notably its federal Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (TIME cover, Dec. 5, 1960). The greatest single assurance of stability has been Nigeria's tripod form of government, designed to prevent any one region from dominating the other two. That system is now in jeopardy, and with it the very future of Nigeria as a democracy...
Political Play? Nigeria's complex crisis is being played out in the scrupulously decorous High Court in the federal capital of Lagos. There, in the course of a trial that has dragged on for four months, the leader of the opposition, Obafemi Awolowo, last week opened his own defense against a government indictment charging him and 24 other leading politicians with conspiracy to overthrow the government. Nearly all the defendants are members of Awolowo's Action Group, the party that rules Western Nigeria and represents it in the federal Parliament. Chief Awolowo is not alone in branding...