Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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In designing their flags, some nations depended on individual inspiration, others on committees and contents. Nigeria held a competition that drew 2,870 entries. The winner: a 22-year-old Nigerian student in Britain who had never designed anything before. The involved banner of the Central African Republic was designed...
Wisps from the Pipe. The hassle was an old story to the U.N. staff in Leéopoldville. Brawny, racist-minded Diplomat Welbeck, once Kwame Nkrumah's top political skull-basher back in Ghana, had long been one of Léopoldville's biggest troublemakers. At Nkrumah'...
Last week once again the U.N. Command inscrutably chose to come to Welbeck's aid. Soon after Nussbaumer's ultimatum, the U.N. sent reinforcements that raised the U.N. guard at the Ghanaian embassy to 170 Tunisian soldiers. The Congo was represented by a handful of military police headed...
By late afternoon, apparently drug-crazed, Inspector N'Gampo was out of control. He scrambled about shouting "We will kill him." Then his unpredictable anger turned on three Western reporters, including TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs. He ordered them arrested as Communists and interrupted their protests "Shut up or you...
A Burst in the Chest. At 7 o'clock, 200 nervous Colongolese troops arrived and deployed facing the embassy. TheTunisians, equally jittery, eyed them in the growing dusk. At 7:40, Lieut. Colonel Joseph N'Kokolo, second-ranking officer in the Congo army started across the street with...