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Political Maturity Political parties: 1. Voters: 38%. Though Communist Party is proscribed, Strongman Modibo Keita's Union Soudanaise spouts Marxist line; only two Cabinet members are considered nonCommunist...
...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 of the deal...
Next morning, Kennedy saw Sukarno and Keita separately. First to arrive was Keita, who wore, instead of his arrival-day blue suit, a multicolored, hand-woven robe called a boubou. Keita talked of his country's need for economic assistance,* warned Kennedy that in the new African states, friendship goes to the big powers that provide the most help...
Since the visit was not official, neither guest was offered lodging at Blair House; Sukarno paid for the best suite at the Mayflower Hotel, and Keita stayed at the Mali embassy. At the airport, Kennedy seemed grim as he shook hands with the visitors, gave a bland speech of welcome that pointed up his own concern for peace. Wearing his customary sunglasses, pitji (pillbox hat) and rows of ribbons, fun-loving President Sukarno-who, during the recent Belgrade conference of neutralists, had spent many of his off-duty hours cavorting in a nightclub called the Snakepit-answered that he hoped...
...Keita, who wound up making a favorable impression on the President, urged Kennedy to work for peace, but told him not to be overly concerned about the opinions of the neutrals. Said he: "There aren't ten people in my country who know where Berlin...