Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successful revolutionaries and moderate nation builders. Ghana's egocentric Osagyefo (Redeemer), Kwame Nkrumah, was due in from Accra. From the Congo would come the embattled Premier Cyrille Adoula. Also on the list: Nigeria's able Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa; Senegal's Senghor; Guinea's Sekou Toure; and dozens more, including, of course, that affable fellow from up north, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was an African of a kind...
...loose association of African countries patterned after the Organization of American States, with a permanent secretariat, council and program for economic cooperation. Such a grouping might help heal the rifts among the continent's current rival blocs-chief among them the left-leaning Casablanca group (Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt), and the more moderate Monrovia group, now composed of Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, the former Belgian Congo, and most of the former French dependencies...
...Gardner led an expedition to New Guinea to study and photograph the Willigiman-Wallalua natives. It was after this expedition that Michael Rockefeller '60 lost his life while collecting art for the Museum of Primitive...
...Dutch New Guinea capital of Hollandia one steamy day last week, the blue-and-white United Nations banner was hauled down, and the red-and-white flag of Indonesia stood waving triumphantly alone. Thus did President Sukarno complete his grab of a California-size chunk of new territory to add to Indonesia's sprawling island chain...
...powerful but also much less appealing. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, leader of the emergent United Arab Republic, has accepted massive military and economic aid from Russia, but has also cracked down relentlessly on local Communists. Almost all the new nations of Africa have rejected Communism roundly-even Guinea, which two years ago appeared to be well on the way to becoming a Communist outpost...