Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they received the back pay-a billion Congolese francs ($5,555,555) by their computation-they felt was due them. Tshombe brought them 40 million francs as a sweetener, and promised to send them to the military base at Kamina, where they would be forged into a crack fighting unit that would save the day for the Congo...
...Malinda, "the youngest daughter shall be returned to the father," the judge directed. "The evidence overwhelmingly establishes that all four children should be kept together as a unit. This is where their great strength lies, and it would be a mistake of the first magnitude to separate any one of them from the others...
...scene after scene, Fail Safe plays like a humdrum remake of Kubrick's picture.* In both films a unit of the Strategic Air Command launches an H-bomb attack on the Soviet Union-in Dr. Strangelove the attack is inspired by a goofy general, in Fail Safe by a confused computer. In both films a sinister refugee scientist advises the U.S. to follow up the accidental attack with a total strike. In both films the U.S. President (Henry Fonda, a presidential candidate in The Best Man, was evidently elected before the release of Fail Safe) hops...
This ethnic homogenity stayed off for a while the collapse of the parish as a meaningful unit...
...Last December the tin miners took 17 hostages (including four Americans) in a dispute over government arrests of two union leaders; two days before Siles and the others were seized, the miners kidnaped five more hostages to force pay boosts, gave them up only when Paz stationed an army unit near the mines. To top it off, 23,000 schoolteachers throughout the country went on strike. They wanted a raise from $31 a month to $39, and some threatened to put on a demonstration this Monday...