Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Underground Interest. What bothered Britain and France was the chance that the Katanga chaos could spread elsewhere in Africa, a continent where political tempers are close to flash point at the best of times. London was especially worried, since Katanga shares a 1,100-mile border with Britain's tense Northern Rhodesia protectorate. Moreover, some Britons and Frenchmen also have heavy financial interests in Katanga itself,* mostly through part ownership of the rich Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, one of the world's biggest copper and cobalt producers, which (according to a report by U.N. Acting...
...policy statement. Nine concrete proposals urge that the U.S. withdraw military installations from countries bordering the U.S.S.R., proclaim that this country will not be the first to use nuclear weapons in war, refrain from giving any additional nations or alliances atomic weapons, invite inspection of its Project Vela underground tests, promote the creation of a U.N. Disarmament Agency, convert the germ warfare research center in Maryland into a U.N. world health center, urge U.N. inspection of nuclear facilities in Israel and Egypt, and repeal the Connally Reservation giving the U.S. the right to decide if international disputes involving...
...Russia each month comes a trickle of contraband manuscripts. Usually handwritten in loose-leaf notebooks by pseudonymous authors, the books are smuggled to Western publishers via an intellectual underground. Last week two of these recently published volumes. Abram Tertz's On Socialist Realism and Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yesenin-Volpin's The Leaf of Spring, gave Western readers a look at Russian intellectuals' bitter disenchantment...
...what to do about him? The U.S. has long ceased to talk about overthrowing him. Notions of staging another invasion by Cuban exiles have been shelved" supplies promised the shattered anti-Castro underground inside Cuba have been deliberately withheld, and exiled Underground Leader Manuel Ray has taken an economic development job in Puerto Rico. The U.S. now pins its hopes on a Colombian plan to ostracize and quarantine Castro through joint action of the 21 nation Organization of American States. Under the Colombian plan, an OAS convened conference of hemisphere foreign ministers would be held to "consider threats...
World War II had the unexpected effect of casting Visser 't Hooft in a new role-underground leader. Even before the war began, rescuing Jews and others from Hitler's Germany was one of his prime concerns. Karl Barth once told him of an imprisoned pastor Barth was especially worried about, and Wim remembered a beer-drinking session he had had in 1933 with a blackshirted Nazi who turned out to be Heinrich Himmler. So Churchman Visser 't Hooft wrote Nazi Himmler. recalling the incident, and succeeded in having the pastor released...