Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nations carved from French Africa, none is less populous or more richly endowed with natural resources than tiny Gabon. With a population of only 450,000, it is one of the biggest producers of uranium and manganese in the franc zone, and its magnetic deposits of iron ore (1 billion tons) are just beginning to be tapped. Hence French President Charles de Gaulle's sudden interest last week in a political upheaval in the steaming, rain-forested republic. No sooner had an army coup toppled Gabon's President Léon Mba than De Gaulle came...
Another Panama? The orders might seem overly severe. But Washington still believes Castro may be working himself up to a major, Panama-style confrontation over Guantanamo. Immediately after the Jan. 9 Canal Zone riots, Castro's radio started appealing to Cuban workers on the base to return to the "motherland." A few weeks ago, Havana's propagandists railed that "drunken U.S. Marines indiscriminately fired their machine guns at Cuban workers." Castro militiamen have resumed their rock-throwing at U.S. sentries, recently fired a burst of machine-gun fire over the heads of a Marine squad inside the fence...
Precisely what remains hidden today, however, is what we should expect de Gaulle's visit next month to unearth. The General is hoping that Latin uneasiness with U.S. pressures on Panama after the Canal Zone riots and South American distaste at Johnson's "over-reaction" to minor provocation at Guantanamo will push many of the southern continent's leaders toward the French camp...
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Crimson coach Floyd Wilson employed the same defensive strategy that had shackled the Tigers in the LAB: a man-to-man with guard Leo Scully on Bradley, and then a zone. But nothing worked Saturday. Bradley sank an eye-popping 13 of 24 field goals, 15 of 13 free throws, and grabbed 15 rebounds...