Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ignominious Tow. The conference did not begin with the kind of nourish the principals hoped for. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and his two satellites, Sekou Toure of Guinea and Mobido Keita of Mali, started a day late from the leafy Guinean capital of Conakry. Ferhat Abbas, President of the "provisional" F.L.N. rebel government of Algeria, took off from Spain in a chartered plane, but had to turn back because of mechanical difficulties. Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic and the canniest professional of the lot, was en route by sea in his official yacht Al Hurriyah (Freedom...
There was no rush to join. States as long independent as Ethiopia or as populous as Nigeria (40 million) are not eager to be camp followers of such newcomers as Ghana and Guinea. Similarly, the Casablanca conference made little appeal to the newly independent states of the French Community-one of which, Mauritania, fears attack by Morocco. Headed by Ivory Coast's President Félix Houphouet-Boigny, this group of nations prefers keeping their cultural and economic ties with France to adventures with Nkrumah or Nasser...
...half U.S. size, of which more than $40 billion goes for defense, Russia is already straining to meet heavy obligations to Red China, the European satellites and Cuba. The Reds are also committed to build Egypt's $1 billion Aswan High Dam, have considerable financial agreements with Ghana, Guinea, India, Iraq and Indonesia. While new U.S. overseas aid this year has totaled $3.7 billion, the Russians were able to send only an estimated $475 million in loans, grants and usable credit to non-Communist countries-far less than the $1.6 billion they had promised...
...Morocco, Guinea and others were criticizing Hammarskjold, and talked of taking their forces out of the U.N. command. Ghana wanted Africans to form an "African command" of their...
...with holes in it. A dozen sharp blows of the palmatória on the open palm leave welts and blisters that last for weeks. Persistent troublemakers disappear quietly to the labor camps of São Tomé, Portugal's little island prison in the Gulf of Guinea...