Word: pan-african
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...searched bus stations and railway terminals. But towering (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs.), affable Nelson Mandela sped from one hideout to another. Often he telephoned newspapers with defiant statements against the government; once he even gave a television interview to the BBC. Last February he traveled to a Pan-African congress in Addis Ababa and returned unnoticed...
...army, Nkrumah bought arms, Jeeps and heavy equipment from both East and West, though it involved the expensive and inefficient process of duplicate stockpiling of spare parts and duplicate training of troops. As a first step toward his dream of Pan-African leadership, Nkrumah laid out $21 million in loan commitments to Mali and Guinea. Further draining the treasury were such lavish expenditures as $3,000,000 for facelifting the ancient (1661) Danish-built Christiansborg Castle, Nkrumah's new presidential palace; another $3,000,000 for Accra's Black Star Square, where Nkrumah can rant about his brand...
...Dilemma. The Pan-African conference pointed up Nasser's curious dilemma today. Only 43, still the idol of Arab masses wherever he goes, he is a man with his ambitions unsated, a fading hero in search of a solid triumph. At home, his record is at best mixed. The Aswan Dam is under construction; Egypt's staple product, cotton, was bought up on world markets in record quantities last year. Russia has provided $170 million for industrial development, as well as $377 million for the dam (v. the U.S.'s $120 million). The Suez Canal is doing...
Along with its echoes of Britain's Westminster, the legislature over which Sir Abubakar presided last week had some of the flavor of a Pan-African Congress. On its benches tall, haughty Hausas, splendidly robed in green and scarlet, sat amongst volatile Ibos draped in white and azure gowns. Across the aisle were Yoruba tribesmen wrapped in gold, yellow and orange with little porkpie beanies on their heads. Between them, they constituted one of the world's noisiest Parliaments. Each speaker was greeted with cries of "Heah, heah" from his friends and derisory shouts of "Sit down...
...diplomat, you must understand that things are not done that way. You must submit an application for diplomatic relations, and we shall judge it on its merits.") Above all, the extremists are shocked that Abubakar can barely conceal his contempt for showboating Kwame Nkrumah and his schemes for Pan-African unification, instead urges that for the time being, African cooperation be limited to such practical steps as technical and cultural exchanges, a common U.N. front and, perhaps, economic agreements...