Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...West African colonies of Senegal and Sudan, sought and were granted their complete sovereignty. In the next two weeks, eight other Community members will become independent nations: Dahomey, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, and Niger, which are loosely grouped into the Council of the Entente; Chad, French Congo, and the Central African Republic, which make up the Union of Central African Republics; and Gabon. Last week the last member of the Community, the desolate Islamic Republic of Mauritania, formally obtained from De Gaulle an agreement granting full independence in November...
...ministers in March, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles pushed through a resolution opposing Communist domination of any Latin American nation. The disapproval among Che's friends in Guatemala was immediate and violent, and he was swept along by their passion. Two months later, with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as a silent partner, a Guatemalan colonel named Carlos Castillo Armas launched his counter-revolutionary invasion of the Red-dominated country. As F-47s swooped down over Guatemala City with U.S. pilots at the controls, Guevara dashed blindly around town trying to organize a resistance force. When Arbenz...
...perhaps 150-boldly through the canebrakes and swamps of Camaguey province, fighting toward Cuba's heart. Batista's forces blasted away with fighter planes, tanks and machine guns, but could not stop Che's men. When they swept into Santa Clara, in central Las Villas province, Cuba was cut in two, and Batista boarded a plane for exile...
...world trip. The repudiation lasted only until the afterglow of Castro's U.S. trip died away. In November Fidel finally turned Cuba's economy over to Che by naming him to run the National Bank, which in addition to acting as Cuba's central bank and bank of issue controls foreign trade...
When A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford offered to build an $862,500 Parisian-style sidewalk cafe and pavilion in Manhattan's Central Park as a gift to the city, he might just as well have proposed a boiler factory for all the protesting cries it aroused. Moaning about this "unwarranted invasion," a curious assortment of allies, ranging from Funnyman Henry Morgan ("Anybody who chops down one tree ought to be executed") to the Fifth Avenue Association and Tiffany & Co., which brought a still pending court suit, apparently on the theory that soda sipping is bad for the diamond business...