Word: servants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...involved in some bitter internecine quarreling with his black colleagues. Last week, however, the bishop made a shrewd appeal for national unity: he let it be known that he had selected Josiah Gumede as the country's first black President and ceremonial head of state. Gumede, a civil servant in London during the days of the Central African Federation (1953-63), resigned from his government post after Prime Minister Ian Smith's unilateral declaration of independence for Rhodesia in 1965; a grateful British government promptly awarded Gumede an M.B.E. Bishop Muzorewa has been accused of playing favorites...
Both Lee and Paik had previously been dismissed from professorships and Korean universities--Paik for signing a petition that called for the restoration of democracy in South Korea. In Korea a civil servant may not participate in any political activity. However, the signing of a petition--in effect, a statement of political belief--seems to fall somewhat short of political activity...
What is Botswana's secret? "We allow free entry to politics from the East, aid from the West, and food from the South," says a white senior civil servant. By this he means that Botswana has diplomatic relations with China and the Soviet Union, accepts financial assistance from the U.S. and Western Europe, and still has close trade connections with South Africa. Botswana does not maintain diplomatic ties with either Salisbury or Pretoria, but its territory is traversed by a Rhodesian-owned railway, and its economy, which revolves around diamond, copper and zinc mining and cattle ranching, is completely...
Sleepless Nights may be short on liveliness but it is long on artfulness: "Everyone dreams of a servant when the ego is bruised . . . Envy is not the vice of the frozen intellectual. How can it seize the mind when boredom arrives before...
...most endearing single character is Carol Ellingson as Cunegonde's old servant lady. Ellingson plays the Old Lady as a Yiddish grandmother, and she gets more and more campy as the show goes on, raving and waddling about the stage...