Word: guineans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manage Conakry's harbor and advise the army, invited dozens of Red Chinese technicians to help with the rice crop. Most important, he welcomed more than 500 Russians who brought with them promises of credits of more than $56 million for an array of technical projects; scores of Guinean students went to Moscow with Soviet scholarships...
...Twist. Touré was enraged by this treachery, even if it did come from his ideological pals. At a diplomatic reception, the presidential protocol officer pulled Ambassador Solod out of the crowd, asked him to go immediately to the Foreign Ministry. There, Guinean officials told the Russian he was persona non grata, must leave the country immediately...
...come close to 1,000 Iron Curtain technicians and advisers, including 500 Russians, 125 Red Chinese. Sweltering little Conakry, the capital, has taken on an East European look. The black traffic cops wear little flat-topped caps resembling those of the hated A.V.H. police in Hungary. At the airport, Guinean honor guards for visiting dignitaries sport Russian helmets and Czech machine pistols...
Right Face. Other Marxian imports are the nationalized foreign trade agencies. They also have proved a flop, the evidence being bare shop shelves and the sagging value of the Guinean franc. Toure has been forced to trim the power of the state import monopoly, allowing private traders to handle some foreign goods. This right face has led to a sharp split in Guinea's Politburo between Sekou Toure, who seems to be willing to try anything provided it pays off, and his militant half-brother Ismael, who thinks Marxism is the answer to every problem...
...months, his yacht, the Caleb (Seagull), had hopped from port to port because Tito is afraid of airplanes. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah had a warm hug for the visitor before the two drove down crowd-lined highways to a physical-fitness rally at Accra Stadium. In Conakry, Guinean girls danced in the streets, cheering wildly as Tito waved from his open car; and in Bamako, capital of little neutralist Mali, school children chanted: "We are Tito's. Tito is ours...