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Nkrumah for President. For all their camaraderie at Haile Selassie's party, not all the delegates to Africa's first "summit conference" last week were pals. Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba loathes Ghana's power-seeking Kwame Nkrumah who is jealous of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser who despises the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny who in turn is contemptuous of Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Senghor...
...achieved as long as African countries continue subversion against others." Balewa declared. He drew a storm of cheers, and even Nkrumah's old friend. Modibo Keita of Mali, joined in to denounce "black imperialism." With the conference obviously in no mood for grandstanding, Egypt's ubiquitous Gamal Abdel Nasser prudently confined himself to generalities...
...troops, the first veterans to return home from the seven-month civil war in Yemen, formed up in Republic Square, where President Gamal Abdel Nasser mounted the dais, advanced to a battery of microphones and cried: "O Men! Faithful sons of your nation, image of its heroes, vanguard of its march to freedom, socialism and unity, you have witnessed on your way here the delight of your nation over your victorious return!" The soldiers clearly shared the nation's delight, for even Egypt's poverty-stricken villages would look good after the harsh wilderness of Yemen...
...never fun to break up a vacation and rush home to deal with some problem at the office. For Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, it was especially provoking, for he was enjoying some of the world's loveliest scenery at Marshal Tito's villa on the Yugoslav island of Brioni. But the cables from Cairo carried word that Nasser's Arab unity scheme was in a state of collapse. Reluctantly, Egypt's leader boarded a plane and headed across the Mediterranean to deal with his troublemaking partners, the Syrians...
...From the Congo would come the embattled Premier Cyrille Adoula. Also on the list: Nigeria's able Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa; Senegal's Senghor; Guinea's Sekou Toure; and dozens more, including, of course, that affable fellow from up north, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was an African of a kind...