Word: sudanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II, five new African nations have achieved independence-some through war and rebellion, others as a result of a policy of enlightened gradualism on the part of their onetime colonial masters. An outstanding example of the second category is the onetime condominium known as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Next month the Sudan will hold its first general elections since independence was formally achieved two years ago. For a report, see FOREIGN NEWS. Promise on the Nile...
...SUDAN Promise on the Nile...
...dusty, sun-baked capital of Khartoum, Africa's biggest new nation prepared this week for the Sudan's first general election since independence was formally achieved two years ago. On the spreading veranda of the Grand Hotel, dapper officials gazed out over the heat-shimmering waters of the Blue Nile, sipped whiskies and soda, conversed alternately in the clipped accents of Oxford and Cambridge and the throaty lilt of Arabic. Less prosperous politicos gathered for drinks or coffee at Pagoulatos' Confectionery and Bar Lord Byron...
...SUDAN. A Russian offer to trade arms and machinery for surplus cotton has so far met with no success. But last year an estimated 200 Sudanese went to the U.S.S.R. at Russian expense as students or visitors. Says a Western diplomat in Khartoum: "The Soviet appeal is that they pay attention to people who have never had any attention paid to them before. They offer free trips to Moscow to people who have never been ten miles out of Khartoum...
...final days of the conference, a few attempts were made to moderate its hysterically anti-Western tone. Sudan's Foreign Minister Mohammed Mahgoub (one of the few officials to attend the "nonofficial" gathering) successfully opposed an anti-discrimination resolution bracketing the U.S. with South Africa, arguing that the U.S. has legislated against racial discrimination while South Africa officially enforces it. Egyptian and Indian delegates between them succeeded in killing a resolution condemning "the inhuman atrocities of the U.S. occupation forces in South Korea...