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...Redemption Committee. Two days after the coup, the armed forces announced that Colonel Lansana Conte had been named President and Colonel Diarra Traore would be Prime Minister of a Cabinet composed of eight civilians and 25 officers. Conte, the apparent leader of the coup, had been commander of the Boke region in northwestern Guinea. Louis Lansana Beavogui, the former Prime Minister, who served as acting President for all of seven days after Toure's death, was reported to have taken refuge in the Chinese embassy...
...blaze completely destroyed the contents of a room in Warner House, but did not get through the walls. The room's two occupants, Miss Katherine L. Vorhaus '69 and Miss Barbara R. Ogur '69, were not in the room when the fire boke...
...FIFTEENTH CENTURY COOKRY BOKE, compiled by John L. Anderson (92 pp.; Scribner; $4.50). This book (suitable for stopping only the lightest doors) might have been written by Chaucer's mother ("Take ye whyte of Eyroun a grete hepe"). But as it takes a half-hour to translate a recipe, it is not good for much except a wry smile. Blue-green jacket...
...year. In a scorching message, he blasted a clause in it which had delayed his signature. The clause, put in at the insistence of California's Senator Sheridan Downey, friend of the big West Coast landholders, denied Reclamation Commissioner Mike Straus and California's Regional Director Richard Boke their...
...have said that we are getting too learned, and in support of that statement I can assert, on the word of Tom Hood, that `the Boke Man is a Dunce in being Wise.' I call for some antidote for such learned societies as the Natural History Society, the German Club, and the French Club; for the establishment, in short, of `The ignorance Club of Harvard College.' This I do not recommend; I insist upon it as a necessity. If we do not take some step in this direction, if we calmly submit to seeing the requirements for admission slowly added...