Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some kind of multiracial solution. In the lakeside town of Bukavu in the Belgian Congo, angry colons recently pelted a Belgian colonial minister with tomatoes because they thought him too liberal. At the same time, a prosperous white merchant in Elisabethville was explaining to a visitor: "We do not want apartheid [segregation]. We wish to share power with the African. The only criterion will be individual capacity...
Uganda, Tanganyika and Sierra Leone are all pressing for time commitments. Back in 1957 a Leopoldville politician kept shouting in my ear over the din of a cafe orchestra: "What we want is justice-the communaute Belgo-Congolaise." Now, only 19 months after the Congo's first municipal elections, the demand is for a wildly impractical schedule calling for territorial elections in December 1959, provincial elections in March 1960, and general elections and a whole parliamentary government by the following June. The dates whiz by in a blur...
...fighting. "I've been losing men daily. My head is just about bursting. I've sent telegram after telegram to the Ministry of Defense explaining the gravity of this situation. I've not had any reply yet. I have asked Vientiane repeatedly, 'Do you want to save Samneua...
...that the industrialist, known as a Batista supporter, would not be assassinated when his plane landed in Fidel Castro's Cuba. To the delight of Brazilians, who regard avoiding taxes as a kind of fifth freedom, Ultima Horn reported that the only reason Birrell did not want to go home was a mere matter of income tax evasion. O Globo reported a Chaloupe statement that Birrell wanted to build a $14 million electronics plant in Brazil, and that "it can only be deduced that interests that do not want to lose these markets are causing difficulties." Another newspaper called...
...Call me a come-in fighter, a counterpuncher, an aggressive boxer. Call me anything you want," said Featherweight Champion Davey Moore, 25. "But if you really want to know what I am, I'm a street fighter, man, the best you ever...