Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gardner had scouted the country a few months before the rest of the group joined him. He was looking for an area untouched by government or missionary developments, and he settled on the Grand Vally in New Guinea, a heavily populated section of 50,000 people...
Overriding Concern. "Don't believe what others say of us or even what we ourselves say, but what we do," says Touré, and by that measure Guinea was beyond reproach during the Cuban crisis. When Touré visited the U.N. in October, he went out of his way to avoid Cuban President Dorticós. When the Russians requested permission to use Conakry's new, 10,663-ft. jet landing strip to service Cuba-bound planes, he turned them down cold, even though the Russians had built the strip themselves for that purpose...
...moment, Touré's overriding concern is to end his quarrel with France's Charles de Gaulle, who still smarts over the way Guinea rejected membership in the French Community and chose independence in 1958. In retaliation, departing French civil servants yanked phones from the walls, smashed light fixtures, and dumped Guinea's records into the Atlantic. Guinea also quit the franc zone, to its near ruin. Now it hopes to win readmission when a French delegation arrives in Guinea soon for talks. Expected price: indemnification for French-owned banks, insurance companies, trading firms and bauxite mines...
Snowplows in the Sun. Considering the chaotic state of Guinea's economy, the price is cheap. Unschooled in modern economics, Touré sought overnight industrialization, instead got overnight bankruptcy. Though he had $92 million in Soviet-bloc credits and the help of 1,200 Red advisers, they were totally unfamiliar with Africa and proved to be of little help. On Conakry's docks, Soviet snowplows still glint in the savage tropical sun, monumental reminders of Red ineptitude...
...with "voluntary labor." Even so, recent visitors describe him as a man who has abandoned his dogmatic Marxism for pragmatism. Western diplomats are hopeful that Touré had enough of a Communist dose, so that he-and perhaps all of Africa-will prove immune in the future. "Guinea received the most massive Communist support anywhere," said one Westerner, "and all Africa has now been vaccinated against Communism...