Word: guineans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more. Once it was a cabal of teachers and trade unionists from within Guinea. Another time it was a plot against Guinea launched by Ivory Coast President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, a longtime Touré enemy. There was an authentic assassination attempt by a knife-wielding Guinean in 1969, but the young fanatic bungled the job, and was lynched by an angry crowd before he could implicate anyone else. Altogether, in the dozen years since Guinea won independence from the French, Touré has complained of at least half a dozen attempts to overthrow his regime...
...Conakry, Guinea's capital, told of seeing men disembarking from four unmarked vessels-among them an LST and a 5,000-ton cargo vessel. Heading for shore in small boats, the invaders came under heavy fire. Eyewitnesses later estimated the force at 350 men wearing Guinean army uniforms without emblems. Most of the invaders were black, but there were some whites as well...
...Cemeteries. Perhaps the liveliest moment in Addis came when Diallo Telli, the abrasive Guinean who serves as secretary general of the Organization for African Unity, complained to Rogers that the U.S. was not helping Africa in its battle against white racism in the southern nations. He told Rogers that he had seen the American cemeteries on the battlefields of World War II, when the U.S. fought against fascism. To that, Rogers had a sharp retort. Stating that the U.S. was interested only in solving African problems by peaceful means, he added: "We hope there will be no American cemeteries...