Word: zairean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Agreed. But to have a group of pro-Palestinian organizations and anti-Israel speakers debate Israeli policy unlikely to accomplish that. It's akin to having a board of Christian fundamentalists discuss the legality of abortion, or having Zairean leader Sese Seko Mobutu speak about peace in Africa, for that matter. Although all views should be heard, treating such a forum as an academic pursuit would make a mockery of the term. To lend Harvard's credibility to a conference so imbalanced in its approach, so determined to push a particular point of view rather than to give...
While serving as the Times' Nairobi bureau chief, Lamb chronicled eight wars that raged across the continent, involving 15 African nations. He reported on corrupt Zairean president Mobutu, who has enshrined "Mobutuism" as his nation's official philosophy, and on Idi Amin, who for eight years ruled Uganda under a system in which "human flesh was cheaper than beef...
This strategy dramatically increased the IMF's power in the international economic system. Banks began referring underdeveloped nations wanting loans to the IMF for its "stamp of approval." The IMF virtually began to run the Zairean economy, and control the economies of other Third World states, including Turkey, Peru and Jamaica. Even European countries, like Portugal, became dependent...
...happened 1,250 miles upriver from the sea, at Kisangani, a Zairean city surrounded by one of the world's densest jungles. As the papal plane touched down, a band of horns, drums and a guitar beat out religious tunes. Two lines of teen-age girls in green swayed, sang and clapped their hands joyously. Swept up by the infectious rhythms, everyone, including the press, began to dance, even the veteran diplomatic correspondent of Italy's staid Corriere della Sera. When John Paul reached the green lines, he suddenly began to dance too, his big frame swaying back...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association (BSA) and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute co-sponsored the symposium. BSA has raised more than $200 for the Zairean Revolutionary Fund, Eugene J. Green '80, president of BSA, said yesterday, adding he expects additional contributions...