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...would have reduced the local university's faculty to four professors. Meeting in a series of open "seminars," a sort of Asiatic teach-in, 500 draft eligibles issued a fiery manifesto accusing Ky of attempting to "lead the society into a state of confusion and darkness," demanded the overthrow of the government, free elections and, for good measure, "social revolution...
...Inns of Court, prefacing each objection with a gracious bow to their "learned friend" across the way. The contrasts, vividly symbolic of Africa in the 1960s, were underlined by the subject of the proceedings: a federal investigation of the Owegbe cult, accused of using juju (magic) to try to overthrow the government of the Mid-Western province, smallest of Nigeria's four regions...
...last week was Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was on an urgent mission to Ghana hoping to clear the way for the grandest conference of all, an Afro-Asian wingding. The affair, originally scheduled for Algiers in June, had to be postponed until Nov. 5 because of the overthrow of Ahmed ben Bella. But shortly after the new date had been set, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah suddenly put off his own spectacular−the 36-nation Organization of African Unity summit until Oct. 21, which was so close to the Algiers summit that many leaders might...
...Clark come to be involved in the famous school desegregation case? Clark explains that NAACP lawyers, in planning strategy for a new attack on segregation in the schools in 1951 decided that the only chance they had to overthrow Plessy v. Ferguson was to introduce psychological data about the harmful effects of segregation. They approached Otto Kleinberg as the man to coordinate the evidence-researching project, and he steered them to a former pupil, Clark, who had just completed a study on the subject for the Mid-Century White House Conference on Youth and Education. "When they came...
Where had they come from? Leopoldville, that unfriendly capital across the Congo River. Who had sent them? "That dwarf abbe," Fulbert Youlou, the deposed President who had vowed to overthrow Massamba-Debat's regime. Furthermore, he charged, the commandos had been trained and equipped by the Congolese army with the aid of a foreign embassy that he refused to name. "It's curious," he said, "but it was not the United States embassy...