Word: tanganyika
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Such tactics quickly earned Nyerere the title of "the god with the magic eye," also brought in observers from such distant monolithic states as Russia and Hungary to watch Nyerere's Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party pull off a far more impressive feat: free, contested elections...
...Nasser, whose security police had been urging him for months to get rid of the troublesome Congolese. He ordered remaining Simbas rounded up, then packed them aboard a government airliner and shipped them out of Egypt. When last seen, they were headed for Kigoma, the Tanzanian railhead on Lake Tanganyika...
...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...
...contrast, participants in Harvard's Project Tanganyika must take a leave of absence if they wish to spend a full year in Africa. Monro said, however, that the University has had "good luck in explaining this kind of thing to the draft board." "Our faculties would be dubious about trying to stretch an umbrells over someone not actually enrolled in school," he added...
...October morning in 1958, carrying an ax, a little flour, a Bible, and a copy of Pilgrim's Progress, he set out barefoot for America. He struck due north through Tanganyika, Uganda, the Sudan. Some days he walked 50 miles, living mostly on bananas and peanuts. After four months his feet were a mass of blisters. "I am mad," he muttered. But his shirt said I WILL TRY. For consolation he read Pilgrim's Progress...