Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stepping regally from his Citroen, Guinea's President Sékou Touré marched to the podium through a squad of women police in white breeches and gleaming boots. A din of drums and balaphon music filled the square, while gales of girls in green, red and yellow hand-printed dresses waited eagerly for the word. Sékou's speech was "to women in prisons all over the country," whose sentences, he announced, would herewith be reduced by a year - except for those held for criminal offenses...
That meant there were plenty of female (not to mention male) political prisoners in Guinea, and that Sékou was just a bit worried about his seven-year grip on the government...
Discontent is understandable in Guinea. Potentially one of the richest of the French West African states, it is now going to seed as only a nationalized African state can. In the capital city of Conakry, the nationalized Printania store displays empty shelves, broken windows, and East European canned goods (gulyás, pickled pork, beans), as well as toy Chinese Communist trucks at $8 apiece and East German pliers for $4. Women queue up for soap powder, tin buckets and sandals cut from old bicycle tires...
...power shortage. Nightfall in the Medina, Conakry's most populous quarter, is barely dispelled by flickering candles and the dim yellow of underpowered bulbs. Hard pressed for power, the Chinese Communists who staff Peking's aid program recently put to use an American electric generator (provided to Guinea by U.S. aid) in their cigarette factory at Wassawassa-until U.S. officials demanded its removal. Last month Sékou Touré's prestigious but overextended Air Guinée had to cease operations: only one of its four routes was paying its own way, and its Soviet Ilyushin...
...fellowships were offered by the Rockefeller family to Harvard and Radcliffe seniors in honor of Michael C. Rockefeller '60 who disappeared in the jungles of New Guinea...