Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hammarskjold had staved off the major calamity of a confrontation of the great powers in the Congo. But Hammarskjold had not reckoned with the meddling and intrigues of some of Africa's ambitious new leaders. Chief meddlers were Cairo's Nasser, Ghana's Nkrumah and Guinea's Sékou Touré, all of whom were working earnestly for Lumumba's return. In recent weeks, their troops have been openly taking sides in the Congo's internal squabble. The U.A.R.'s 510-man U.N. unit covertly assisted the pro-Lumumba forces that have...
Last week the U.N. force was subjected to the worst threat yet. The U.A.R., Guinea and Morocco announced that they were withdrawing most of their troops, and Indonesia declared that it was also pulling out its 1,145 men. Overall, this meant a loss of one-fourth of the U.N.'s manpower. The withdrawals would clearly favor the pro-Lumumba rebels already in control of more than 30% of northern and eastern Congo, and anxious to extend their influence once the U.N. roadblocks disappear. In Stanleyville, Antoine Gizenga's pro-Lumumba forces held 300 hostages, prepared to shoot...
...order to make your race diminish. Islam permits four wives." So all-corrupting was Christian colonialism's influence, says Mohammed Heikal, editor of Cairo's Al Ahram, that it has even caused good Arabic names to be debased and mispronounced. His examples: the name of Guinea's President, Sékou Touré, is a corruption of Sheikh el Tarika (meaning chief of tribe); Mali's President Modibo Keita is properly Muadab Kita (meaning polite); Nigeria's Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa should be called Abu Bakr Abu Eleiwa (all proper names...
Armed Assault. In the coastal areas where the Dutch exercise firm administrative control, some 30,000 Papuans attend primary school, and one lone native is a student at a university in The Netherlands. Next month the Papuans will hold their first election ever for a New Guinea-wide council, to which the Dutch will turn over the power to pass its own ordinances regulating health, marriage, crime, labor and taxes...
Died. Major General Joseph Sladen Bradley, 60, who won the Silver Star at New Guinea's Buna Beach in World War II, commanded the 25th Division during its drive into North Korea in 1951; of cancer; in Walter Reed Army Hospital...