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...West. He first welcomed, then suddenly denounced, the U.S.-sponsored Baghdad Pact. He refused to sign a military-aid agreement with the U.S. on the ground that its provisions for supervision were "too much like colonization." He fell under the flattering spell of Chou En-lai and Nehru at Bandung. Then, in September 1955, he suddenly announced that Egypt had made a deal for large amounts of Czech arms. He offered his habitual explanation: he was forced into it. Israel's massive Gaza raid earlier in the year, he explained, had convinced him that Egypt must have arms...
Worthy reported on his experiences in China for the Baltimore Afro-American, CBS Radio News, and the New York Post. Previously, he had covered the Bandung Conference and written a series of stories on Africa...
Worthy reported on Red China for the Baltimore Afro-American, CBS Radio News, and the New York Post. Previously, he had covered the Bandung Conference, and had written a series of stories from Africa...
Unreasonable Ban. Bill Worthy is a hard-working foreign correspondent who covered Korea, the Bandung Conference, and other major events on assignment from Afro-American, which pays part of his expenses and allows him to sell stories to other publications. He has also worked as a free-lance correspondent for CBS, which in August 1955 carried his short-wave radio newscast from Moscow, the first permitted a U.S. newsman since 1947. Worthy tried to persuade CBS to underwrite his trip to China, but the network, wary of stirring up trouble in Washington, refused. However, CBS said it will continue...
...welcome extended to Sukarno by the U.S. Jet fighters escorted Sukarno's plane. Guards of honor and equally well-drilled cheering multitudes greeted him at airports with bunting and banners. At a meeting of Leningrad engineering workers, who offered to help industrialize Indonesia, Sukarno, himself an engineer (Bandung Technical Institute), let his emotion overflow: "My heart brims with love and gratitude. I beg you not to address me as . . . Your Excellency. I beg you to call me Bung Karno [Brother Karno...