Word: rebuild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even the leader of a strong one-party state cannot enforce his decisions so long as his army disagrees. For the most part, Africa's armies are small and politically uninformed. But political awareness seems to be developing. Nyerere's solution to the problem has been to rebuild his army with TANU Youth Wingers, and already he has thousands of volunteers. This, he claims, will both keep the nation's youth busy and provide Nyerere with a body of troops that see things through TANU's -and therefore his-eyes. If political awareness must come...
...earlier unity attempts that had failed (the Casablanca Pact and the Monrovia Group), and with its insistence on African solutions to African problems, it listened with sympathy to Nyerere's story, effectively absolved him of his sin. Shaken but still alive, Julius Nyerere set out to rebuild his army and his popularity...
...young widow Hannah, mother of five, to manage the shop. She managed well. In 1778, when the Courant's paper mill burned to the ground, Hannah talked the Connecticut general assembly into sponsoring a statewide lottery, and from the proceeds ($31,000) she was given $5,000 to rebuild the mill...
...month-old Rachel. Marina visited with her brother-in-law, Robert Oswald, made a brief trip to her husband's grave on the outskirts of Fort Worth, and asked that a simple stone be placed above it. Well-wishers have donated $23,000 to help her rebuild her life, and with grateful sincerity, Marina Oswald could say that "I've never had a Christmas like this before, and I probably never will again...
Died. Erich Ollenhauer, 62, chairman of West Germany's Social Democratic Party since 1952, a portly Socialist who spent twelve years in exile during the Nazi dictatorship, returned in 1946 to help rebuild the party under the leadership of fiery Kurt Schumacher, took command after Schumacher's death, and though he attempted to woo the middle-class vote, suffered resounding defeats at the hand of Konrad Adenauer in the 1953 and 1957 elections, after which he increasingly delegated leadership to younger politicians; of a lung ailment; in Bonn...