Word: guinea
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Many U.S. citizens think of the U.N. as a club or civic organization for those nations that believe in liberty, justice and a better life. Aren't these principles incorporated in the U.N. charter? Now we learn that Egypt, Ghana and Guinea have deserted the U.N. effort to stabilize the Congo, and that Russia refuses to help pay the U.N. Congo bill. We don't understand. If these countries won't support the club, why are they kept in? We suggest a tough resolution by our country, as aggressive and demanding as the Soviets have been, asking...
...writing began when Branwell was twelve, and the first two toy-soldier games, "The Young Men's Play" and "The Islanders" (in which each child peopled an island with heroes of his own choice) fused into a game called "African Adventure," in which the soldiers, wrecked on the Guinea coast, fought the natives, established a colony and partitioned it into twelve kingdoms. Little, redheaded, myopic Branwell, aflame with invention, drew maps of the colony, drew up a constitution, manned the kingdoms with leaders, statesmen, newspaper and magazine editors...
...study during which scientists, psychologists and engineers carefully graded their performances. Topflight test pilots all, the astronauts dived into a program that included instruction in astronautics, ballistics, trajectories, fuels, guidance, basic aviation medicine, orbital flight hygiene, space environment, astronomy, meteorology, astrophysics and geography. Along the way, they were guinea-pigged into hot chambers and cold, wild rides in 20-G centrifuges and in disorientation machines that whirled them around till they became physically sick. They lived for days at a time in pressure suits, studied prototypes of the Mercury capsule, attended launchings...
...Hammarskjold's operations. The U.N. deputy in the Congo, Rajeshwar Dayal, seemed to be all too willing to close his eyes to outrages by Lumumbaist bullyboys, while taking every opportunity to denounce anti-Lumumba regimes. The U.N. force itself was dangerously close to disintegration, with Morocco and Guinea withdrawing their troops, and professional meddlers such as Nasser and Ghana's Nkrumah trying to take a hand in the Congo's internal affairs. Most of all, there seemed to be no end in sight under the present ground rules. For too long, U.N. troops, operating under fuzzy, limited...
Common Ground. With the news of Lumumba's death, and in the thunder of Moscow's political drums, hopes of agreement suddenly faded in a welter of confusion. But it soon became clear that although several African nations (Ghana, Guinea, the U.A.R., Mali, Morocco) quickly joined the Russians in recognizing Gizenga's "government," that was where Moscow's success stopped. Mali and Guinea spoke up halfheartedly for Hammarskjold's resignation (but not his ouster); most shared the view of one Asian who admitted, "We're all at fault for not giving Hammarskjold a stronger...