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...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...
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...
...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...
...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...