Word: guineans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Technical level on which the Peace Corps will operate has been obscured in the mass of favorable and critical publicity which has received. A recent CBS-TV broadcast presented as a of the Peace Corps films of a team of American students sledge-hammers on a Guinean hillside. Magazine articles newspaper stories about voluntary work-camp projects have blurred the public conception of the Peace Corps and its The image presented in these articles-and the recent Wash- Conference did little to correct it--is of a sort of international with a college diploma. Sooner or later, the Peace Corps...
...discussing the future of their continent, several Ambassadors stressed the hope for an eventual United States of Africa. Guinean envoy Conte, whose French was translated for the CRIMSON by Charles L. Mack, Jr. '48, maintained that "the road to union passes through independence...
...Orders crackled from U.S. Air Force European headquarters in Wiesbaden, and an urgent airlift headed south. U.S. planes stopped at Nairobi, Salisbury and the Cameroun city of Garoua, picked up food pledged by other governments. On the way back, the planes would help haul out the Moroccan, U.A.R. and Guinean troops that the dissident politicians of Africa had ordered home...
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...
Black Colonization. But Welbeck had gone too far. President Kasavubu announced bluntly that Welbeck was a liar ("Lumumba was fired and he stays fired!"), and the enraged Colonel Mobutu replied with a demand that all Ghanaian troops in the U.N. force get out of the Congo and take their Guinean friends with them. From now on, Kasavubu added in a pointed reference to Lumumba, all foreigners should deal only with the new 28-man High Commission Mobutu had installed as temporary rulers of the Congo. The High Commissioners themselves called a press conference to criticize Nkrumah's efforts...