Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wild Boar. Halfway through his journey last week, Agnew was looking, listening and, in his effort to please, practicing what might be called Rotarian diplomacy. After a formal Nepalese dinner of guinea fowl and wild boar, he spoke in glowing exaggeration about the significance of the traditional namaste greeting. The act of placing hands together in prayerlike position, observed Agnew, "may well do more to ease the tension of the world today than all the diplomatic discussions." In talks with King Mahendra, Agnew said that President Nixon "understands" Nepal's friendship with China, but cautioned that the prospects...
CONGO REPUBLIC The Hammer and the Hoe Not even Guinea, for all its flirtations with Moscow and Peking, had gone so far. In Brazzaville last week, the new banner of the Congo Republic was fluttering atop flagpoles, boasting a crossed hammer and hoe (the sickle, it seems, is not used in equatorial Africa) surmounted by the traditional gold star. The country was rechristened the People's Republic of the Congo-not to be confused with the former Belgian Congo, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. National assembly functions were taken over by a central committee consisting...