Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rich Eastern Region; the ebullient Yorubas of the cocoa-growing West; the feudal Hausas and Fulani of the semiarid "Holy North." Their differences are basic and, unfortunately, all too typical of the tribal divisions that plague other African nations. The Northerners are rigid Moslems, suspicious of outsiders, wary of progress, ruled by reactionary emirs whose palaces are made of mud and whose law is adamantine...
Cool on Contempt. Police, prosecutors and other members of the legal branch who violated the rules would be subject to contempt proceedings before whatever court was handling the case. While a jury trial is in progress, urged the committee, the court should also hold in contempt any person who makes an out-of-court public statement that is "reasonably calculated to affect the outcome of the trial and seriously threatens to have such an effect...
Still, there was renewed pressure on the U.S., especially from Europeans, to completely close its much debated payments gap as a precondition for meaningful progress toward world monetary reform. The so-called Group of Ten industrial nations has been creeping toward some sort of reform that would create a new reserve in case the $69.6 billion in gold, dollars and pounds sterling now available to settle international payments becomes insufficient to back growing world trade...
...agreement was reached, or expected, on monetary reform, but at least there was some progress on how to go about it. The exclusive Group of Ten, with France dissenting, earlier this year voted to struggle ahead with some sort of monetary reform. Before Christmas, the Ten will meet with the 20 members of the executive board of the International Monetary Fund, which includes representatives of less developed countries, so that the poor as well as the rich can have a say in reform plans. Also there was agreement that some sort of stand-by reserve plan-no one knows quite...
...CORE's position on Black Power is that black people must be able to determine for themselves the direction and pace of their progress," Floyd McKissick, National Director of CORE told a meager, Young Dems audience last night...