Word: aidmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miffed Mammies. Touré learned to fear Russians bearing gifts; Soviet loans petered out soon after he expelled the Russian ambassador for fomenting anti-Toure demonstrations in 1961. In one of his more astute aidmanship gambits, he later snubbed Moscow by strengthening his ties with Peking, whose technicians have already built a match factory and a cigarette plant. But Russian-dictated "reforms" and Touré's own policies persisted. On Moscow's urging, Touré had divorced Guinea's currency from France's monetary system, flooded the country with new paper francs embellished with his portrait...
...million from Red China, and perhaps $12 million from Russia. To keep himself from being compromised, Sihanouk, after each Western gift, generally scampers off to Peking or Moscow for an offsetting Red handout. Last week, in a dazzling display of diplomatic virtuosity, Sihanouk unveiled a second rule of aidmanship: always bite the hand that feeds...
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