Word: politician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farming next door to us." With equal vehemence, African Nationalist Leader Tom Mboya denounced the proposals as falling far short of the sweeping redistribution of White Highlands acreage demanded by Africans. Even members of the moderate New Kenya Party, led by Michael Blundell, Kenya's most progressive white politician, raised the outcry that the plan was discriminatory against Europeans; it was unfair, they said, to open the Highlands to Africans, when white farmers were not allowed to buy any of the thousands of fertile acres lying unused in African tribal reserves...
...captives from the unwarlike Baluba people. When the Lulua finally drove the invaders off, the captives settled down happily in Luluabourg as voluntary serfs of the Lulua -a state of affairs that persisted until last January, when the downtrodden Baluba finally began to listen to Albert Kalondji, a Baluba politician who told them that they deserved to own the land they tilled...
...journalists last night disputed vice-president Nixon's political record, one terming him a statesman who travels the middle of the road, and the other labelling him a politician who aways from one side to the other...
Answering the question of the forum, "Nixon as President: Statesman or Politician," Harold E. Clancy, managing editor of the conservative Boston Traveler, said he saw no inconsistency in Nixon's stands...
...bewildering array of 60 political parties has emerged in the Congo. New groups and splinter groups form with such rapidity that one Congolese leader found that the party he heads had split in two while he was flying from Leopoldville to Brussels last week. The most powerful Congolese politician is Joseph Kasavubu, 42, one of Leopoldville's ten native commune burgomasters. But Kasavubu's Abako Party represents mostly the Bakongo people of the southwest, who want immediate independence only for themselves. Abako's chief rival is the National Congolese Movement Party, headed by a flamboyant convicted embezzler...