Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Emperor: Ethiopia's Haile Selassie. Kings: Nepal's Mahendra and Morocco's Hassan II. Princes: Cambodia's Norodom Sihanouk and Yemen's Seif el Islam el Hassan. Foreign Ministers: Guinea's Beavogui Lansana, Saudi Arabia's Ibraham Sowail and Iraq's Hashim Jawad. Prime Ministers: Afghanistan's Sardar Mohammed Baud, the Algerian F.L.N.'s Youssef Ben Khedda, Burma's U Nu, Ceylon's Mme. Bandaranaike, India's Nehru and Lebanon's Saeb Salaam. Presidents: Cuba's Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado, Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, Ghana...
...definition proved vague enough to permit some touchy antagonists to get invitations. Of the 24 nations so far coming to Belgrade,* Ethiopia and Somalia have a longstanding border dispute that occasionally erupts into bloody frontier incidents. At one stage of the Congo crisis, Yugoslavia, the U.A.R., Guinea and Mali split with India, Ethiopia and other neutralist countries over which Congolese government to recognize. More importantly, the nations meeting at Belgrade habitually split into two loose groupings-one composed of actively anti-Western African nations (including the Algerian rebel F.L.N.), the other predominantly Asian, led by India, and more moderate...
...Burma, Ceylon, Ghana, Guinea, Ethiopia, Sudan, India, Indonesia, Yemen, Cambodia, Mali, Morocco, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, United Arab Republic, Lebanon, Algerian Provisional Government (F.L.N.), Tunisia, Cyprus, Afghanistan, Cuba, Iraq, Yugoslavia; observer nations: Brazil, Bolivia. Possible participant: Cyrille Adoula of the Congo...
...other cultures, this simple admiring social gesture might have earned no more than an unappreciative slap. But the Tolais have been nursing a grudge against the Sepiks for years-ever since the Sepiks began migrating from the New Guinea mainland two decades ago and rose in status as laborers around Rabaul. The pinched tribeswoman called her cousin to avenge her insult. A Sepik pitched in to help the pincher. Soon it was tribe against tribe. Tolais with white-painted faces armed themselves with baskets of stones and heavy sticks. The more imaginative Sepiks stuck hibiscus blooms in their hair...
...crowd of weapon-waving natives. But the Sydney Morning Herald took a less lighthearted view. "This outburst of savagery," said an irate editorial, "should provide a convincing answer to those members of the United Nations Trustee Council who last month voted for immediate independence for Papua and New Guinea...