Word: zanzibar
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...Fragile Societies. Zanzibar's month-old government fell to a savage anti-Arab coup. A flash fire of mutinies singed the wings of three fledgling East African nations. Border warfare exploded between Ethiopa and Somalia...
...British officers two years after uhuru, the African soldiers interpreted de-Africanization to mean that they would not gain the promotions they had been promised. Locked and loaded with resentment, the Rifles needed only a touch to unload through the muzzle. Four days later, on the tiny island of Zanzibar, 221 miles off the East African coast, a finger began moving toward the trigger...
Crises seemed to sprout like weeds while Chou was on the continent-Zanzibar's government fell in a bloody coup; the armies of Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda mutinied; poison arrows began flying in the Congo. And although he claimed no responsibility for the flare-ups ("We Chinese are often surprised by compliments we do not deserve," he quipped dryly in Somalia), many Africans found it hard to swallow such a spate of coincidences. Whether he was guilty or not, they were glad to see Chou out of Africa...
...hard to convince people to plot, against Fidel Castro, because right now he's on top of the world," he said. Quijano counted the recent treaty with the Soviet Union, the operation of Cuban-trained guerrillas in Africa (presumably in the recent revolution in Zanzibar), and the general turmoil prevailing throughout Latin America as key factors to Castro's strength...
...world leadership. "There is no major area in the world," said he, "where the cause of freedom is not worse off today than it was four years ago. In Asia-Viet Nam, which is now our baby 100%, will be down the drain if present trends continue. In Africa-Zanzibar, like Cuba, is now a jumping-off place for further penetration of that great continent. In Latin America-Cuba is gone, Bolivia is going, Brazil is on the brink, not to mention the mess in Panama. In Europe-we gave the cold shoulder to De Gaulle, and now he gives...