Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sunk in disorder and poverty, many of the newly independent nations of black Africa not long ago seemed ripe ground for Communism. None seemed riper than Guinea, where President Sékou Touré preached a dogmatic Marxist philosophy and a virulent hatred of the West. But in Africa, a local saying holds, "There is no past or future, only the present," and Guinea is a perfect case in point. After years of cozying up to Moscow, Touré has turned against the Reds, and their high hopes of gaining an African foothold in Guinea have all but evaporated...
...tract but limited as fiction, scarcely able to survive its time and place. Even in less dated novels. Steinbeck's characters are not, as Edmund Wilson once wrote, "really quite human beings: they are cunning little living dolls that amuse us as we might be amused by pet guinea pigs, squirrels or rabbits...
Jettisoned Cargo. The white man did not invent slavery. For centuries the tribes along the Guinea coast (the 4,000 miles of West African coastline stretching from present-day Mali to Angola) had made slaves of one another. But the insatiable European slavers, trading in guns, powder and rum, set off an ever-widening wave of violence. Rival tribes raided incessantly and reached out into the interior for fresh supplies of victims...
...American taxpayer buys U.N. bonds while the bankrupt U.N. underwrites the failing currency of West New Guinea (West Irian), which is failing because the Dutch pulled out at the urging of the U.S. Government, which is supported by the American taxpayer...
...point where doctors nnd drug makers had been at odds with FDA men and many legislators, a sensible compomise was reached. Extremists crying "Human guinea pig!" had demanded that no doctor be allowed to give an investigational drug to a patient without telling him so. This would have made it impossible to compare the effects of a drug with those of an inert dummy (a placebo), as is now done in "double-blind" studies in which neither doctors nor patients know who is getting the active substance. So the law now says that doctors must tell patients what they...