Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard will work inside or outside the national Peace Corps," Monro said. He pointed out independent programs in Nigeria, Guinea, and Mall...
Nearly all of the visiting Africans, Ambassadors to the United Nations, were optimistic about the future course of U.S. African policy, although Ambassador Conte of Guinea warned that his country would "judge intentions along the lines of future actions...
...anthropological expedition to unmapped jungles of Netherlands New Guinea, Michael Rockefeller, 22-year-old son of the New York Governor, peered through his horn-rimmed glasses and spotted a band of Willigiman-Wallalua warriors. Weeks later, the wanderlusting Harvard alumnus was still in his Baliem Valley element, excitedly filming "an area of the world and people never photographed before" and carrying out his special expedition mission: recording the off-beat music of the bellicose Willigiman-Wallalua, a harmonic grinding of teeth, backed by contrapuntal hoots and rumbles...
Behind the scheme lay the fear that twelve poor, relatively small countries might not long survive alone among such expansionist wheeler-dealers as Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Sékou Touré of Guinea. Guiding spirit of the conference was Ivory Coast's able President Félix Houphouet-Boigny, 55, who had years of experience in the French National Assembly, has become ex-French Africa's most influential statesman...
...hookup with Europe's six-nation Common Market. As their next step, the conferees decided to seek some kind of affiliation with huge Nigeria and rubber-rich Liberia. If this came off, West Africa would have a powerful counterweight to the noisy, elbowing radicals of Ghana and Guinea...