Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advisers tried to get him to change his mind-but Rockefeller was adamant. The November announcement of the marital breakup came like political thunder. Then, less than 48 hours later, came word of the loss of the Rockefellers' youngest son, Michael, in the waters off New Guinea, and the Governor's futile and compulsive race to the Far East...
...wounded five persons around him. The Indonesians tried to implicate the Dutch in this fifth attempt on Sukarno's life in five years by declaring that the assassin's pistol was "Dutch made." But the ploy was as trans parent as the halfhearted invasion of Netherlands New Guinea last week, in which 40 Indonesian paratroopers dropped into the Dutch colony and were routed by the defenders. Only purpose of the "invasion" seemed to be to keep the Indonesians' minds inflamed against the Dutch-and off their economic troubles at home...
...prize guinea pig died...
Official reason for the cancellation was "rising tension" over West New Guinea (West Irian to the Indonesians), which Sukarno keeps threatening to "liberate" from Dutch rule. Actually, while Sukarno kept ranting, he managed quietly to postpone his deadline. Before, he had sounded as if an invasion of New Guinea were imminent, but now he shouted: "Whatever happens, before the sun rises on Jan. 1, 1963, West Irian will be ours. If the Dutch oppose peaceful means, we shall liberate with force." Before Jan. 1, 1963, Sukarno wall have plenty to preoccupy him at home...
...lashed out at Adlai Stevenson, who had said that the white settlers added "an extra edge of trouble and bitterness" to the African scene. Replied Sir Roy: it is in fact the "white Africans who have brought skill, progress, and light to Africa." while such African-controlled countries as Guinea and Ghana are "dictatorships...