Word: zanzibar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with New England rum, as well as guns, to exchange for slaves. "Worter yr. Rum as much as possible," one owner counseled his captain, "and sell as much by the short mesuer as you can." In the 1840s, so many Yankee ships from Salem traded on the island of Zanzibar (which specialized not only in slaves but made-to-order eunuchs) that the natives believed Salem was a country...
...largely consisting of former French West African colonies. It is hampered by the reluctance of richer members such as Cameroun and Gabon to get too involved with such poorer sisters as Chad. The other African common market is a bloc of four East African states-Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda and Zanzibar-that are in various stages of emerging from British colonialism...
...learned that the Red queens-they have long since parted-might be leaving Moscow, swore out warrants for their arrest under Britain's Official Secrets Act. At week's end, after checking every train, plane and ship from Russia, British police and intelligence agents from Accra to Zanzibar were still waiting. Some highly placed Britons hoped they would wait a long, long time...
...capsule and rocket had separated, and Enos was over Zanzibar. The Zanzibar tracking station reported: "He hasn't missed a trick yet." Neither the acceleration of the roaring ascent nor weightlessness in orbit seemed to bother the meditative chimp. When colored lights appeared in little windows above his couch, he pressed the levers which, as he had been taught, would keep him from suffering mild electric shocks. Over Australia and over the Pacific, the lights appeared as scheduled, and Enos, performing properly, got no shocks. He was reported by Mexico at 11:34 and by Canaveral...
...island of Zanzibar, only ten miles off the Tanganyikan mainland, Arabs have enlisted communist support in their struggle for supremacy over the island's population...