Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year and a half ago, France abruptly stalked out of Guinea, and left it to fend for itself, the first nation to declare its independence from the new French Community. A small, impoverished country the size of Oregon, on Africa's western bulge, Guinea had no administrators to replace those the French took with them, and President Sékou Toué a handsome and tough political organizer, had more experience in rabble-rousing than in governing. Last week, there were alarming signs that out of a combination of ineptness and ignorance, Guinea was rapidly becoming a police state...
...Captives. The 1,000-odd Frenchmen who are still living in Guinea are harassed at every turn. Some have been jailed for failing to stand up in theaters when Guinea's national anthem was played; one drew three months ("willful deterioration of Guinea's national heritage") for practicing with a revolver against the trunk of a mango tree. Airline officials have laid on 25 extra flights in the next few weeks to take care of Frenchmen and their families headed for home...
...Cameroon. The aluminum plant belonging to the Compagnie Cam-erounaise de l'Aluminum Pechiney/Ugine is exclusively in the hands of French and Belgian shareholders [not shared with Olin-Mathieson]. On the other hand, Olin-Mathieson is an important shareholder of FRIA, which produces alumina from local bauxite in Guinea; other shareholders in the company, in addition to our French group, are English, German and Swiss producers...
...enrolled at American colleges and schools, and rare is the week that a black man with a name newly famous but hard to pronounce does not show up at New York's Idlewild Airport in a neat black suit. In the past two years the list has included Guinea's Sékou Touré, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Ivory Coast's Félix Houphouet-Boigny, Nigeria's Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kenya's Tom Mboya, Nyasaland's Kanyama Chiume, Southern Rhodesia's Joshua Nkomo, and most recently Tanganyika's Julius...
Died. Sir Archibald Mclndoe, 59, British plastic surgeon who gave hundreds of burned, maimed R.A.F. and Allied pilots new faces, limbs and lives; in his sleep; in London. In appreciation of his wartime skills, some 600 of Mclndoe's "reconverted" pilots formed an alumni group called "The Guinea Pig Club." Its anthem: "We are Mclndoe's army,/We are his guinea pigs:/With dermatomes and pedicles/Glass eyes, false teeth and wigs...