Word: zanzibar
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...Rusk's worries about Zanzibar have come true, see THE WORLD...
...governments. During the present calendar year, there will have been elections or changes in government in more than 50 of them. Now I suppose there would be ten or twelve of those changes of government which were unscheduled. That creates a turbulence in our scene. The little island of Zanzibar becomes an independent state this month. How many islands of the Pacific will want to be independent states? The prospect here is to me unsettling, at least...
...Ghana, where he was entertaining Red China's Chou Enlai, Kwame Nkrumah worked relentlessly toward his goal of achieving a one-party dictatorship. In the Congo, the old bogy of secession once again threatened. And on the 34th day of independence for the clove-scented island of Zanzibar, revolt spilled hopes and blood into the azure Indian Ocean...
...Manhattan last week, the U.N. grew to a total of 113 members with the admission of the newly independent states of Zanzibar and Kenya. Zanzibar consists of two small islands in the Indian Ocean, with a total population of 310,000, or about that of Omaha. Nevertheless, Zanzibar has one vote in the General Assembly, and is thus equal in voting power with such nuclear giants as the Soviet Union...
...more than three centuries, Zanzibar was the jumping-off place for adventurers and explorers and a sanctuary for slavers, who carried their black cargo from the mainland beyond the range of avenging tribes. Swept by the monsoons, dhows from the Arabian peninsula brought Moslem raiders who installed Arab sultans and kept the island's black majority in bondage cultivating the clove groves (the island still supplies 75% of the world's cloves). After the British took over in 1890, troops kept the racial peace, but today race riots sporadically erupt. Though the Arabs make up less than...