Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FIVE years ago, Russians and Eastern Europeans were varity in black Africa, and, though occasional African nationalists turned up in Moscow to study, not one Pravda Page in so mentioned the continent's name. Last week, everywhere Western diplomats turned. Communist weeds were sprouting in the freshly plowed soil of African nationhood Guinea's Sekou Toure turned to the East for aid after France responded to his demand for independence by withdrawing everything down to the Government House furniture NOW he has Czechs operating his airports, Poles running his public works and East Germans building...
Attorneys of the Virginia Bar Association had mapped out a defense, even passed on their thoughts to Powers' court-assigned Russian counsel, without much hope that he would heed them. They argued that Powers was not really a spy: he had not been caught in espionage on Russian soil, but had merely been flying in the open skies at the command of his Government. Echoed Barbara Powers: "He should have been called a scout for our Government." It was a verbal distinction not likely to go far in a Russian court...
...Nehru urged states and municipalities to supply long-handled brooms to their sweepers, even if the tradition-bound sweepers might in some instances object. Then he went Harriet Bunker one better: besides cleaning India's streets, untouchables must also empty India's privies, carrying away the night soil uncovered in open wheelbarrows or loosely woven baskets or pans borne, coolie-fashion, on the head. Such a practice, said Nehru, is a "disgusting sight. Every sweeper should be given a proper container with...
...know that half the crimes in France are due to alcoholism?" The Assembly broke into a storm of protest. Pleaded the Duke de Montesquiou-Fezensac: "Don't banish from the nation men who, living in misery, improve their humble position with products of the soil. Our vines are our glory. Do not the leaves entwine themselves about the capitals of our cathedrals?" Deputy Hervé Nader accused Debré of "favoring the Anglomania of whisky galore, which will soon become the opium of the middle classes...
...enough and ruthless enough to wield it. At Elisabethville, capital of the secessionist province of Katanga, the plane was denied permission to land. A spokesman for the Katanga leader, Moise Tshombe, said that President Kasavubu was welcome, but "we refuse to let that other character set foot on Katangese soil." When the two harassed leaders took off from Luluabourg and headed for Stanleyville, they never made it: a Belgian crew member overheard Lumumba say he wanted to break off diplomatic relations with Belgium, and the Belgian pilot turned the plane toward Leopoldville, where Ndjili Airport was in the hands...