Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truths that hit the mark. Example: he stressed the Africans' high vulnerability to blandishments by the Soviet bloc, "which conveniently ignores conditions existing in Hungary and in the Soviet Union's occupied or colonial territories." Added Louw: "The ruler of Ghana is flirting with Moscow and Peking. Guinea, soon after being given its independence, promptly became a disciple of Moscow. Mali appears to be going the same way." He also pointed out-accurately-that living conditions in the continent's two oldest black states, Ethiopia and Liberia, are "appalling," and added a needling reminder to other Africans...
...Nikita Khrushchev and his glittering attendance at the Belgrade parley of the neutralist nonbloc, was the looming failure of his dream of a Nkrumah-controlled Pan African empire. His influence in the Congo had fallen away, and the expensive Ghana-subsidized alliance with Sékou Toure's Guinea and Modibo Keita's Mali was getting him nowhere. Moreover, the day was fast approaching when Ghana's dwindling exchequer would have to put up $226 million for the ambitious Volta River power and aluminum project, if the U.S. and the World Bank went ahead with their part...
Died. General Robert Lawrence Eichelberger, 75, tall, rugged ramrod of the Pacific War who led the first successful U.S. ground offensive against the Japanese at New Guinea's bloody Buna Beach, later commanded the famed "Amphibious Eighth" Army in more than 60 amphibious assaults, and was the first U.S. general officer to land in conquered Japan; of pneumonia following surgery; in Asheville, N.C. A soldier's soldier who believed that "the best way for a general to find out what is happening is to go up where the bullets are being fired," West Pointer Eichelberger saw his first...
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...Russia's. The 39,-500 students attracted to the U.S. from underdeveloped areas last year compared with 3,600 in all the Communist-bloc countries. Despite the lure of Moscow's Patrice Lumumba (formerly Friendship) University, the Russians hooked a mere 441 Africans, 186 of them from Guinea. The Russians' total Latin American catch: 200 students, half from Cuba. In the Middle East, they recruited 664 students, mostly Iraqis. "Many Soviet scholarships are going begging in Africa and the Middle East," says Coombs...