Word: officialdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aden Abdullah's main job will simply be to keep the country afloat, a task that the World Bank estimates will take $6,000,000 a year in outside aid. Yet to the new officialdom, optimism came easy last week in the sidewalk espresso shops of sun-scorched Mogadishu, the capital and only major city, where the hot monsoon sometimes blows hard enough to whip off the tablecloths. Construction was being rushed on two jerry-built but air-conditioned hotels. And like tribalists all over Africa, Somalis were talking ambitiously of redrawing the borders imposed by the white...
...last week there were signs that Britain was having second thoughts. British economists pointed to a U.N. report that showed that increased trade between the Common Market nations accounted for 60% of the total rise in trade amongst European nations last year. From British officialdom came frank admissions that Britain had sorely misjudged Europe's political eagerness for unity, and the U.S.'s consistent effort to provide aid. and comfort to that drive...
...Lisbon, Portuguese officialdom claimed a "moral victory.'' More important to Indians was the fact that the enclaves were clearly destined to remain Indian territory in practice, if not in law. Enthusiasts announced that their next target would be ancient Goa, biggest of Portugal's remaining Indian possessions. But Goa would be harder to "liberate." Since it is on the coast, Portugal can easily reinforce Goa's garrison without crossing Indian territory...
During his first six months in Peking, Austrian-born Correspondent Nossal, 33, has done little to impair the Globe's diplomatic relations with Red China. Bland, approving copy has flowed westward, uncensored, on Red China officialdom ("gracious and courteous"), babies ("cute and chubby and cuddlesome"), the sights in the capital ("Peking is almost ready for the tourists; it has little to be ashamed of and much to be proud of"), Premier Chou En-lai ("vibrant personality"), and industry ("The organization of China's industrial enterprises is excellent"). Sometimes his stories have sounded as if they were translated from...
...Humphreys' Hubert Jr., 17, Rob ert, 16, Dougie, 12, and Nancy, 21, peddled buttons and literature up and down Main streets. Virtually all officialdom from Humphrey's Minnesota, led by Governor Orville Freeman, swept across the border to campaign for their man. The two candidates themselves kept up a grueling, sun-up-to-midnight schedule, attracted increasing swarms of voters wherever they went. This week, as the campaign rocketed toward the April 5 finish line, the fighting was getting rough...