Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leads his people's military effort and speaks for their pain. With an Oxford education, a rare gift for rhetoric and a deep sense of the tragedy encompassing the war, he is endowed with the best that the white man has given Africa and beset by the worst of Africa's many ills. Ojukwu is also probably...
...doomed. On the other hand, if the Ibos are decimated and permanently embittered, the federation may be doomed in another way. Nigeria's rulers are talking unity, while at the same time conducting a form of tribal warfare that may make unity impossible at best and unnecessary at worst. By granting Ojukwu his demand for airborne relief, the Nigerians would show minimal concern for 8 million people who remain, by their own definition, Nigerian citizens...
...House of Representatives may thwart the Senate plan. Kentucky Congressman Carl Perkins says that OEO's future will be determined "by its good works between now and next year." Fearing the worst, OEO personnel are leaving the agency at record rates. Sargent Shriver's successor, Bertrand M. Harding, has adopted a conciliatory tone toward Congress but has thus far failed to placate his foes. Next year's budget is even more pinched than the outlays that Shriver fought to increase. Yet even OEO's future is not the key issue The agency's original mandate...
...workers, peasants and soldiers, and rapidly catch up with the hundreds of millions of revolutionary people now advancing with big strides." They admitted that not the Red Guards but "the workers, peasants and soldiers were the main force" in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and in proletarian education. Worst of all, "Red Guards in many places expressed their determination to go to the rural areas, border areas, factories, mines and basic units in order to integrate themselves with the workers and peasants." That, in the current lexicon of China, is the Maoist version of exile to Siberia...
Doris Day fans, if there are any left, would be better off waiting for her new situation-comedy series on TV this fall. At worst, it will be only half a man-hour wasted...