Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through war, wile and treaty, France managed to get possession of the 30,000-sq.-mi. island toward the end of the 18th century. Concentrating on the western third of the mountainous land, the French brought in thousands of colonists, and with them came vast numbers of Negro slaves from Africa. The French called their Caribbean possession Saint Domingue, termed it the "Queen of the Antilles." So it was. In the 1780s, its foreign trade approached $140 million a year, with vast profits from sugar, coffee, cocoa, cotton and indigo flowing back home. Before long, 40,000 whites were lording...
Swamp or inland sea, it was hard for outside observers to figure what India and Pakistan had to gain in the Rann-other than a prolongation of their long-standing feud. Some Western diplomats think Pakistani President Mohammed Ayub Khan planned the action before his trip to Washington was "postponed" last month by Lyndon Johnson. In Washington, Ayub could have argued that India, armed with American weapons since its border fight with Red China in 1962, had become dangerously aggressive and should receive no more U.S. military aid. But Ayub's forces did not hesitate to use their...
...Lumumba Institute seven miles outside Nairobi, providing two Russian instructors in the Leninist art of political action. Then Odinga negotiated a deal for a shipload of Soviet arms for Kenya, which the Russians seemed only too eager to provide absolutely free of charge. Odinga meanwhile hustled around making anti-Western speeches, and verbally sniping at the more moderate members of Kenyatta's Cabinet...
...autograph hunters, the Chinese arrived in Ljubljana four days before the tournament began, set up camp in a schoolhouse twelve miles outside town. They brought their own food, their own cook, even their own sparring partners, trained in the styles of individual opponents-including the "tennis" grip favored by Western players over the older "penholder" grip still used with devastating effect by the Chinese...
...EASTERN EUROPE. The U.S. has diplomatic relations, but not consular agreements, with all European Communist countries except Albania and East Germany. U.S. tourists have no legal rights in the Western sense, but neither should they fear being treated any worse than Communist citizens. Checking in at the U.S. consulate is the first thing to do in all Communist countries. As for "don'ts," the list is long: Don't criticize officials, disobey police, lose documents, carry letters for anyone, or photograph shabby people and military installations (including civilian bridges, airports and railroad stations). A Communist legal tour...