Word: support
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Edinburgh-educated Nyerere dislikes some parts of the new agreement with Britain, he has agreed to support it for four years before taking the next step, full African self-rule. He even insists that the civil service (2,800 whites, 300 Africans) remain predominantly British until Tanganyikans can be trained, and acknowledges the permanent right of Tanganyika's whites and Asians to have a minority share in government. Blessed with a sensible African leader in a territory with no large white settler population, Britain was happy to make Tanganyika its first testing ground for self-rule in East...
...editorial was intended not only to shock the Belgians but to keep African voters away from the polls, since in rural elections so far, voters have been giving heavy support to a large moderate party which Kasavubu contemptuously considers a stooge for the Belgians...
...movie theater at Havana's Camp Liberty, a crowd of rebel soldiers sent up an impromptu cheer-and were seized and hauled off to have their beards shaved for their impertinence. On the witness stand for a seven-hour harangue,* Castro produced not one fact to support the charge of treason. "I do not deny the merits of Huber Matos," said Castro, explaining that his crime was trying to "confound" the revolution by resigning. When Matos tried to interrupt, Prime Minister Castro snarled: "You'll get your turn, Mr. Morality of the Century...
...Prado last week as a chorus of assent from Latin American Presidents answered his call for a hemisphere-wide conference on disarmament. The U.S. Department of State hastened to approve the idea. Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Uruguay agreed to meet, and Argentine President Arturo Frondizi cabled "my firmest support...
...that holds together the naughty passages of such works as Tropic of Cancer, Sexus, and Plexus-he interrupts a reasonably interesting travel piece to proclaim that "we are to know one day what it is to have life eternal-when we have ceased to murder." Such gaseous evangelizing, in support of love, life and art, and in denunciation of the sorry life led by U.S. materialists, soon leaves the reader wheezing...