Word: omdurman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first indication of a coup was an ominous radio silence in the predawn hours of Friday. Then at 8 a.m., Radio Omdurman, Sudan's official station, resumed with martial music, followed by a solemn announcement: "The June Revolution has come to restore to the Sudanese citizen his injured dignity and rebuild the Sudan of the future...
...write a constitution and choose a permanent government. After years of Nimeiri's harshly autocratic, one-party rule, Sudan seemed to revel in its new chance at democracy. Candidates representing some 30 different parties, ranging from Muslim fundamentalists to Communists, competed for assembly seats. Major cities like Khartoum and Omdurman were swathed in campaign posters and political banners. "The Sudanese nation," said Suwar al Dahab, "has decided to go ahead with democracy...
Suddenly, Sudan seemed renewed. The change began with drum rolls and music on state-run Radio Omdurman, after which General Abdul Rahman Suwar al Dahab, the Defense Minister, proclaimed to the country, "The government is finished. The people stand united." Within minutes, the capital city of Khartoum, which had been in a state of paralysis, sprang to life. Drivers honked their horns, radios blared, and hundreds of thousands of people poured into the streets, cheering, chanting, dancing, embracing. Policemen smiled; children, shouting, rode on the tops and trunks of cars...
...when he was 30, Winston Churchill had already accomplished more than most men do in a lifetime. He added luster to the family name in the Caribbean as a daredevil correspondent covering the Cuban insurrection. At Omdurman, he rode in the British army's last great cavalry charge during Kitchener's campaign to reconquer the Sudan. He became a national hero by escaping from his Boer captors in South Africa in 1899. The following year he was prepared to greet the new century as a Member of Parliament, a novelist and traveling lecturer. In America, Mark Twain presented...