Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guinea's President Sékou Touré is against offending any possible creditor. East or West, Communist or democratic; see FOREIGN NEWS, The Big Hello...
Under left-leaning Toure, Guinea is Communism's first solid foothold on the vast African continent. But the stakes are far greater than Guinea; China was bidding for influence in all of Africa's disintegrating colonial empires. If Touré went away properly impressed, he could be counted on to pass the word to the leaders of Africa's other new and needy nations. Cried Peking's Mayor Peng Chen: "U.S. imperialism is the most vicious enemy of the national independence movement in Africa. Imperialism remains imperialism, just as the jackal remains a jackal." Replied Tour...
...Doorman arrived at Fremantle, Australia, the local seamen's union struck to show sympathy with Indonesia, refused to man tugs or docking lines. The Doorman cranked up her aircraft and maneuvered to her berth by using the propeller blasts to nudge alongside the dock. At Hollandia, New Guinea, the Doorman unloaded twelve obsolescent Hawker Hunter turbojets to bolster the small Dutch defense forces. Crying "Horrid imperialists," Indonesia's President Sukarno broke off diplomatic relations with The Netherlands...
...Sukarno prepared to join Khrushchev at the United Nations next week to raise the question of West New Guinea and the Karel Doorman, Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns observed sadly: "International relations are drifting toward a kind of anarchy where blackmail replaces the rules of diplomacy...
...itself at least once a day. Also aboard were refugees from back-country drought land, and when one woman bore a baby on a rolling flatcar, Camus kneaded that into the story. Drawing on nearly every member of his crew, which included a Vietnamese script girl and mechanics from Guinea and Japan, he ordered them before the lenses whenever new roles came to mind...