Word: salaam
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...seven students, members of PBH's Project Tanganyika, are living in the suburbs of Dar es Salaam, where new fighting in a revolt by the army against its British officers broke out yesterday...
...attempt by PBH officers to place a telephone call to the volunteers in Dar es Salaam yesterday morning was unsuccessful. They will try again to get through to members of the Project sometime this morning...
...Salaam was reported relatively calm last night, after several British officers had been fired from their positions. President Julius Nyerere went on the radio in the evening and denounced the violence as a disgrace to all Tanganyikans...
Violence erupted on Monday, when the First Battalion of Tanganyika's Army mutinied in Dar es Salaam. The army objected to a low pay scale and to the continuance of British officers in positions of command...
...those who thought Hassan was a bit ungrateful. But Istiqlal leaders were pressing for close economic and diplomatic ties with Cairo, based on a common Islamic heritage, and demanding that Hassan pursue Morocco's claims to Spanish Sahara, Mauritania and part of Algeria's Sahara. Refusing to salaam to Gamal Abdel Nasser, King Hassan resisted, arguing that the nation's future lies less with the Arab world than with France and Europe's Common Market. He also opposed the nationalists' agitation on the border claims. Said Hassan's closest political confidant, Cabinet Director Ahmed...