Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly share your optimism that "Spain is an awakening land." The brutal fact is that Spain still remains dormant, a tragedy to the Western world since 1939. The alliance of the Spanish church, the military leaders and the monarchists will certainly find the means to continue the vicious circle in which the country finds itself. Ideas and men make a nation, and unfortunately Spain has neither...
STEWART UDALL, 45, made more politically embarrassing statements in his first six months as Secretary of the Interior than any other Cabinet member since Charlie Wilson. Prodded by conservation-minded Lyndon Johnson, he has since broadened his office's traditional preoccupation with Western problems into a nationwide mandate, presided over the greatest expansion in conservation activity since Theodore Roosevelt's day. As the Great Society's custodian of natural and civic beauty, Udall has taken as his active concern everything from the water needs of thirsty Eastern cities to the fate of the nearly extinct California condor...
...officers killed or neutralized their superiors and grabbed control of big units of the army. Then, in simultaneous strikes throughout the nation, they killed or kidnaped Nigeria's most powerful feudal lord, the Sardauna of Sokoto; its two most corrupt politicians, Finance Minister Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh and Western Region Premier Chief Samuel Akintola; and its most prestigious international figure, Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa...
Handcuffs & Dash. A similar scene was occurring at the same time in Ibadan, capital of the Western Region, where the Sardauna's political ally, Regional Premier Chief Samuel Akintola, was shot and his house burned down...
...government. Congressmen saw their mandates as springboards to instant wealth. Ministers wheeled and dealed: Okotie Eboh almost openly accepted dash from large corporations in return for favored treatment, and used his position as Finance Minister to drive through prohibitive tariffs to protect his own private shoe factory. In the Western Region, all but one of the government party's 54 regional assemblymen drew fat extra paychecks for doubling as Ministers or parliamentary officials-a feat that President Nnamdi Azikiwe (who sat out the revolt in England, recuperating from a recent illness) once described in disgust as "a world record...