Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Operating like a resistance group in an occupied country, which they argue Wales is, Glyn and his friends have put "The Voice of Free Wales" on the air at least three times a week for the past month. Dodging from house to house, from town to town, the broadcasters have spread their illicit message through South Wales. Unlike the Scottish nationalist movement, which is more intellectual and romantic, the Welsh nationalists appeal to 2,500,000 cohesive people with an intense pride in their native songs and in their literature, which dates back to the 6th century poets, Taliesin...
...Algerian rebels themselves, getting nowhere in Algeria, are reviving their campaign of terrorism in France itself. In the past three weeks Moslem terrorists have been machine-gunning cafés and police stations in Paris, mostly directing their attacks on fellow Algerians. Twelve have been killed, among them an 18-year-old English chorus girl accidentally shot down on her way to work at the Folies-Bèrgere...
...past 16 months the organization has consisted of little more than Hoosman, his portable typewriter and a pile of stationery. Working out of his tiny Munich hotel room, he has searched for sponsors, raised funds, got publicity, gathered statistics and lists. Last Christmas the Bavarian radio helped Hoosman put on a party for 40 Munich Negerkinder. He got headlines in the West German press by smuggling out of East Germany a little Negerkind named Roswitha Kubik. Louis Armstrong and his band raced over from a Stuttgart concert to put on a special Saturday afternoon party for Hoosman's Munich...
...themselves as "brown Africans." Because of their devotion to large families ("If we have only four or five children," explains one Uganda tailor, "our neighbors sneer at us and say we are too poor to have any more"), the Indian population in East Africa shot up 74% in the past ten years. "The Asians," the Asians say, "are in Africa to stay." So far, the whites have grudgingly let them, but some Asians are beginning to wonder: What about the blacks...
...Phoui or his Finance Minister, and both men are showing an admirable tendency toward writers' cramp. Into this tiny nation of 2,000,000 people, the U.S. has since January 1955 poured $225 million (plus large amounts of classified military aid). The future looks promising, if the past is not allowed to haunt...