Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minister Andrei Gromyko used in his opening speech to the United Nations, and that Soviet diplomats were still peddling in the corridors. Several of the newly independent nations of Africa and Asia. whose foreign policy is neutralist or left-leaning anyway, accepted the Red reasoning. Said the representative of Guinea: "The direct colonial exploitation of yesteryear is now being substituted by that of international monopolies...
Last week the Six gave an eloquent reply through Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak. When he finished, even the ambassadors from Guinea. Ghana and other Marx-minded nations added their applause to the wave of hand clapping. Said Spaak...
...competition. The National Monument Fund, for instance, is building two monuments. A national monument in the shape of a 300-ft. obelisk is going up across from Sukarno's palace. Also in construction is a 120-ft. West Irian monument memorializing the recent diplomatic conquest of Dutch New Guinea. Designed by the Big Builder himself, the West Irian monument is topped by a 30-ft. bronze man breaking out of his chains. Meanwhile government spending on social welfare has dropped from $6,000,000 in 1956 to $1,373,000 last year-hardly a monument...
...contains a trace of DDT, but that this is nothing to worry about. He and his co-workers fed 200 times the normal amount to 51 convict volunteers. The insecticide accumulated in their bodies for about one year and then was excreted as fast as it arrived. The human guinea pigs felt no ill effects, and doctors pronounced them as healthy as a control group that got the same diet without extra...
Anticlimax. The Dutch rulers of Western New Guinea have discouraged headhunting, so the elaborate buildup generally ends at this point. The ancestor poles are taken out into the sago forest and left to rot. Perhaps the souls of dead ancestors go away with them and cease to annoy the living; perhaps their decay helps the procreation of the sago trees. The Asmat are well aware that all this is an anticlimax, but when the Dutch leave New Guinea, as they soon must, the ceremonial may culminate as of old in a real head-hunting raid on a neighboring tribe...