Word: tanganyika
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...alone), more than half have been racked by severe political and economic convulsions, ranging from the bloody civil wars of the Congo to virtual bankruptcy in Guinea to the assassination of a President in Togo. Under moderate leaders like Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere, independence has brought stability. Under Red-hot redeemers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, it has sometimes brought political repression and financial ruin...
...passing out guns to Afro-Shirazis and members of the outlawed Red Chinese-orientated Umma Party. In less than twelve hours, the Arab government of Sultan Seyyid Jamshid bin Abdulla had fallen, its ministers were in jail, and the 34-year-old sultan himself was hurrying toward asylum in Tanganyika...
Rage & Recognition. Worried for the safety of American citizens on the is land, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Frederick Picard quickly evacuated the Project Mercury Space Tracking Station outside Zanzibar Town and sent dozens of official personnel and dependents off to Tanganyika on a U.S. destroyer. But four American newsmen (including TIME'S William Smith) arrived in Zanzibar to provide a target for the government's wrath. The reporters sailed in on an Arab dhow and began asking questions. Karume, who wanted no visitors, had them placed under house arrest in the Zanzibar Hotel. When Picard intervened...
Violence erupted on Monday, when the First Battalion of Tanganyika's Army mutinied in Dar es Salaam. The army objected to a low pay scale and to the continuance of British officers in positions of command...
...Project Tanganyika is run by Phillips Brooks House with money raised from local subscriptions and foundation grants. The volunteers are chosen by PBH officers...