Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Another man who feels the heavy weight of a continent on his shoulders is Gamal Abdel Nasser, who in 1954 wrote from faraway Cairo, "The Dark Continent is now the scene of a strange and excited turbulence . . . We shall not stand idly by . . ." With his own words ringing in his...
It was a gala day in L éopoldville, and as President Joseph Kasavubu's plane touched down at Ndjili airport, dozens of diplomats and 10,000 of the citizenry endured the sweltering heat to welcome the Hero of Manhattan who had won U.N. acceptance as the Congo'...
It was late the next morning before anyone realized that Patrice Lumumba had escaped. Hastily, Military Boss Colonel Joseph Mobutu dashed to a telephone to sound the alarm and begin the chase. Out went telegrams to outposts around the country ordering "nationwide vigilance by every Congolese to capture the traitor...
When the plane returned a few hours later, the disheveled Lumumba, his hands manacled behind his back, was pushed at gun point into the back of an army truck where he squatted sullenly in his shirtsleeves for the ride to Colonel Mobutu's home in an army camp nearby...
On the farthest fringes of the central Congo rain forest lives fat King Lukengu, monarch of the peace-loving Bakuba and their subject tribe, the Bakete. Far as he is from the fighting and feuding in the new republic's cities, King Lukengu has nonetheless been roughly handled by...