Word: guines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country appeared thousands of leaflets denouncing the Touré government. Their source: the Guinea Teachers' Union, an extreme left-wing group with strong Communist ties. Since Toure permits no competition whatsoever with either his own trade union movement or with his tough P.D.G. (Parti Démocratique de Guinée), his courts promptly sentenced the rebel leaders to jail terms. Supporters of the teachers' union responded with nationwide demonstrations; at Labé, mobs clashed with the police; in Conakry thousands of demonstrators, some of them students just back from Moscow, attacked the presidential palace with homemade bombs...
...goods was a puny shipment of police motorcycles of the kind Touré saw and admired in Los Angeles during his U.S. tour last year. For private Western businessmen, the outlook is dark indeed. Government cooperatives are taking over foreign trade, and Touré's Comptoir Guinéen du Commerce Extérieur, the state-owned trading agency, is so deep in debt that prohibitive taxes are being levied on oil companies to rake up new funds. In fact, Toure's treasury is so strapped for cash that it has not even been able to keep...