Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solid good sense of many African leaders whom the British groomed for self-rule-notably its federal Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (TIME cover, Dec. 5, 1960). The greatest single assurance of stability has been Nigeria's tripod form of government, designed to prevent any one region from dominating the other two. That system is now in jeopardy, and with it the very future of Nigeria as a democracy and as a nation...
Smashed Mace. Chief Samuel L. Akintola, who became deputy leader of the Action Group and Western Region premier, last May rebelled against Awolowo's policies, was sacked as deputy leader and dismissed as the West's premier (he was later reinstated by court order). Awolowo's high-handed reprisals led to a chair-throwing melee in the Western Region assembly at Ibadan in which the ceremonial mace was shattered and the politicians subdued with tear...
...word used to suggest that someone is miserly or grasping. But among Indian businessmen, the word must be used with caution. Though widely disliked, India's Marwaris are a tough and able people who have spread all over India from their ancestral home in the Marwar region of Rajasthan State, becoming a powerful and growing force in commerce and finance. India's shrewdest small businessmen for many years, they have now moved inexorably into big business. Marwaris control 60% of Calcutta's commerce and industry, 45% of Bombay's. They hold half the capital...
What's the Price? "A Marwari," the Marwaris like to say, "gets business acumen in his mother's womb." Actually, the Marwaris more probably learned it by scratching for a grim living in the Marwar region, a desert area of rugged hills and parched climate that is one of India's poorest areas. To escape this fate, Marwaris began emigrating to the city three generations back, becoming small shopkeepers in Calcutta or Bombay. They work longer and harder than anyone else, lend a helping hand to each other (there are no Marwari beggars), and single-mindedly devote...
...Butler had just spent two weeks in the Rhodesias, and concluded that a breakup of the ten-year-old federation was inevitable. Sometime in the coming spring, Butler is expected to call a conference in London to overhaul the constitution of Northern Rhodesia, and give the region the right to secede; he also hoped that he might salvage from the federation's wreckage some kind of economic link between the two Rhodesias. Field's aim is to win independence for Southern Rhodesia before Britain has a chance to draft a new constitution that would assure Southern Rhodesia...