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...poker-faced object of these salutations, China's Premier Chou Enlai, 65, arrived by chartered KLM plane for an eight-day visit to Pakistan, a nation of 100 million people that was once solidly pro-Western and is still a member of both CENTO and SEATO, which were set up for the purpose of containing Communism. Yet since 1962, Pakistan and Red China have 1) settled their border problems, 2) signed a trade agreement, and 3) made an air treaty under which Pakistan International Airlines will begin flights to Canton and Shanghai this summer, with reciprocal rights for Chinese...
...blue and white DC-7 skimmed clear of the sand dunes surrounding Somalia's primitive Mogadishu Airport, then wheeled out over the Indian Ocean toward Asia. In his chartered KLM air liner, Red China's Premier Chou Enlai, his hard face lined and bloodless, watched Africa drop behind him. In the course of his 53-day safari, he had toured ten nations, ranging from so traditional a monarchy as Morocco to so Red-hot a republic as Ghana, with time out for a side trip to Albania...
Though seven African nations signed up for an anti-imperialist "Second Bandung Conference" of Afro-Asian governments, touted by Chou, he failed notably to sow the seeds of Red China's virulent anti-Americanism. This failure was most pointed in Guinea. When Chou attacked the U.S. position in Panama, he was disappointed to find Sekou...
...country after country, Chou preached alliance of the colored, underprivileged peoples of the world-"a pact amongst poor friends." This pitch went over better than any other, and no doubt it will be the theme song of future Chinese programs in Africa. But for all his polychromatic pandering, Chou still found many African leaders cool toward China. Indeed, some were just plain frightened...
Crises seemed to sprout like weeds while Chou was on the continent-Zanzibar's government fell in a bloody coup; the armies of Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda mutinied; poison arrows began flying in the Congo. And although he claimed no responsibility for the flare-ups ("We Chinese are often surprised by compliments we do not deserve," he quipped dryly in Somalia), many Africans found it hard to swallow such a spate of coincidences. Whether he was guilty or not, they were glad to see Chou out of Africa...