Word: vassal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Storming out of the crowded hall, the 41-year-old Tshombe ordered his plane prepared for departure. Next day, he called in the press, fell to his knees to demonstrate for the benefit of photographers how "vassal" Kasavubu "bowed to the U.N." Then he announced he was leaving for home, and that the other Congo leaders were not worth talking to anyway. "For the last ten months, while we in Katanga have been working to build up our country, they have been loafing around chasing power, cars and women," sneered Tshombe. With that, Tshombe headed for the airport, where...
...Vassal. Yet, just the week before his father's death, Hassan hotly denied that there was any "new or recent orientation'' of Morocco's policy. "Our country,'' he explained, "is consolidating its independence and enlarging the domain of its interests. It is in this context that one must consider the development of Moroccan-Soviet cooperation. If certain recent manifestations give witness to its importance, this results from the great role played by the Soviet Union in the international field, and not from any vassalage on our part whatever." Western diplomats in Rabat see Hassan...