Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headed for a compromise that would have allowed the Ibos a mea sure of autonomy and self-protection while still keeping them in the federation. But Gowon was unwilling to let the East maintain a separate army, finally brought the crisis to a head by decreeing a plan for twelve Nigerian states that would have cut the Ibos off from their oil and their coastline. Meanwhile, Ojukwu expelled Northerners from his region and built up his army. In the early hours of May 30, 1967, at a champagne reception in the regional capital of Enugu, he announced the creation...
...other countries' affairs. As a gesture of unity, Ceausescu and the Czechoslovaks signed a new friendship pact between the two countries. The Czechoslovaks and Rumanians also discussed embarking upon a form of economic cooperation similar to the scheme that had been proposed by Tito. Under Tito's plan, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia will create a sort of two-country common market that will enable each country to draw on the other's investment capital, labor pool and special industrial talents. There were some signs, most notably new attacks in the Soviet press against Dubcek's programs...
...Satchel is one of the greatest pitchers of all time," said Braves Owner William Bartholomay, "and baseball would be guilty of negligence should it not assure this legendary figure a place in the pension plan." That it would. Though Satch leaves everyone guessing about his age, he was born some time around 1905, the son of a Mobile, Ala., gardener. In an era when professional sport was for whites only, the gangling, broad-shouldered iron man with the blazing fastball had to sweat out a living on the old Negro circuit. For almost three decades, he pitched as often...
...number of Eastern medical schools have recognized the justice of Harris' complaint. They are now accepting Negro and Puerto Rican applicants whose admission-test scores would have been considered too low for other candidates, and plan to give them special tutoring to help them catch up. Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx is giving free make-up courses between undergraduate college and med school. New York Medical College has set up a Medstart Committee to recruit interested Negroes and Puerto Ricans. New York University found itself this summer, for the first time in 30 years, with...
...only detailed plan offered so far this summer has come from the university's Alumni Federation, which expressed "unreserved pride" in Kirk, called for stern limits on protests and stronger student government. It also proposed the creation of a 15-man board of visitors to check out complaints about the operation of each of the university's 15 schools. The boards would include trustee-appointed alumni, students, administrators and outside specialists. But Kirk is cool even to that modest proposal...