Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explosion of new countries, new names, new faces and new facts week by week and year by year, TIME has reported the immediate news as it happened and has assessed the development in a wide range of major pieces, including cover stories on Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah. Guinea's President Sékou Touré, Kenya's Independence Leader Tom Mboya, Nigeria's Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, and Katanga's secessionist President Moise Tshombe. This week TIME wraps it all up in a brief but thorough guide to the cultural, political...
Exports: Peanuts. Per capita income: $177. U.S. aid (1961): $3,600,000. Senegal has little save glittering capital city of Dakar. Bordering Marxist Mali and Guinea, nation faces long-term Communist threat...
...Above-The Mud Below. French Adventurer Pierre-Dominique Gais-seau took his camera into uncharted New Guinea territory and brought back a grittily absorbing documentary record of headhunters, mock birth rituals, and curious relics of the Stone...
...Above - The Mud Below returns, in grittily absorbing documentary fashion, to the Stone Age. Filmed in the cruel, uncharted jungle of interior New Guinea, it is a salute to man's unquenchable zest for adventure and a pictorial diary of age-old sociological curios, from headhunting to mock-birth rituals...
...deep-pile carpeting of the rain forest, so dense that only needles of sunlight ever filter through to the dank jungle floor, the incessant droning whine of insects, and the voracious, slimy leeches, the size of amputated little fingers, that have to be burned off the skin. In New Guinea, the cruelest headhunter is still Nature...