Word: swahili
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lessons of 50 minutes each, carried by closed-circuit television. By such tactics, Mexico has managed to cut its illiteracy rate from 58% in 1940 to 37% today. Tanzania is leading 500,000 students through 90-minute classes three times a week for five months to become literate in Swahili. Iran, with an 80% rate in rural areas, drafts high school graduates into an "army of knowledge" for 14 months to teach in villages. Some 15,000 such "sergeant-teachers" have taught 300,000 children and 35,000 adults to read...
Mercenary Commander Mike Hoare has been ordered to attack Fizi as soon as he has trained his latest batch of white recruits, but it will be no easy task. Advised by a dozen Castro Cubans (who carry Spanish-Swahili dictionaries), the rebels have turned the Fizi region into a fortress of sorts. They are well equipped. Their every need is supplied by a fleet of rebel-operated "fishing" boats-which make regular runs across Lake Tanganyika between Fizi and Kigoma...
...EVENING WITH BELAFONTE/MAKEBA (RCA Victor). Two of the best Negro singers of the decade combine to give voice to South Africa's sorrow. Singing in Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho or Swahili, they manage to cast light on the Dark Continent through the warmth and vigor of their interpretations...
...best. One cat is Ubi (Raymond St. Jacques), a troublesome tribal hipster who has lived in Harlem, and can spout such phrases as: "You goofed it, daddy." Ever wary of what Ubi may do, Mitchum scarcely can find any time for Carroll Baker, who speaks a few words of Swahili rather competently and lets the rest of her lines fall where they may. Actress Baker behaves in a manner befitting a missionary's daughter who aspires to become a sex symbol, but in movies as forced, synthetic and flaccid as Mister Moses, one false image more or less need...
...port of Mahagi with hardly a shot fired. A land force moved more cautiously, with four Ferret armored scout cars spraying likely ambush spots along the road with machine-gun fire. Congolese planes, flown by anti-Castro Cuban pilots, had showered leaflets on rebel territory. Printed in Lingala, Swahili...