Word: guineans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Long Island. Minutes after sunrise, the squads simultaneously rapped on 15 doors and arrested a surprisingly respectable group of 16 Negro citizens. Among them were Assistant Junior High School Principal Herman Ferguson, 47, Brooklyn Schoolteacher Ursula West, 28, and Michelle Kaurouma, 24, the attractive wife of a French Guinean student. At almost the same time in Philadelphia, police arrested a 17th suspect...
Nkrumah has avoided the cage. He is ensconced in a seaside villa in the Guinean capital of Conakry, 980 miles from Accra, where he studies French, carries on a voluminous correspondence with his remaining admirers and hatches schemes for a triumphal return. Though Sékou Touré, Guinea's leader, has distinctly cooled on his initial offer to share power and prestige with Nkrumah, he continues to give Nkrumah sanctuary. Nkrumah's presence is thus still felt in Ghana, especially by the military men of the National Liberation Council who now run the country...
Nkrumah's years of misrule now fully exposed by Ghana's well-entrenched new military government, many Guinean officials consider his presence a distinct liability. As a result, he has been elbowed out of the political limelight; he is now kept under virtual house arrest in his high-walled villa. Nearly a dozen of his bodyguards have deserted and crossed the border to Sierra Leone to start a new life. His Egyptian wife Fathia, whom he shelved years ago for more comely playmates, has taken refuge in Cairo, refuses to rejoin him or even to allow his three...
...year term on the penal island of Goli Otok in the Adriatic; as a member of the Nazarene sect he refuses to report for military service and handle objects intended for killing. There is also a "Prisoner of the Year." The 1966 selection is Koumandian Keita, a Guinean headmaster sentenced to ten years for criticizing President Sekou Toure's education policies...
...restore "the Redeemer" to his throne. Trouble was that to get there, Sekou's soldiers would have had to march 250 miles through an entirely different country, the Ivory Coast, whose President Félix Houphouet-Boigny called out his own 3,000-man army to repel the "Guinean hordes...