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...letter to neutralist Presidents Keita of Mali and Sukarno of Indonesia (see following story), President Kennedy warned that "we do not intend to enter into negotiations under ultimata or threats. It is also clear that we do not propose to discuss either abdication of our responsibility or renunciation of the modalities for carrying out those responsibilities . . . We are prepared to meet force with force if it is used against us." Later, Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov that any further unilateral action in Berlin by the Russians and the East Germans would obliterate hope for rational...
...with the announced purpose of telling the host how to run the household. Thus President Kennedy last week made little effort to conceal his private irritation at a visit to Washington from Indonesia's showboating President Sukarno and Mali's towering (6 ft. 8 in.) President Modibo Keita, who had come, as representatives of neutralist nations, to urge the U.S. against taking any stands that might lead...
Nehru-already scheduled to go to Moscow from Belgrade on a state visit-and Nkrumah were asked to take the Khrushchev letter. Sukarno then proposed that he and Mali's President Modibo Keita carry the Kennedy letter to Washington as official messengers. At the word "official." Nehru blew up. He would not be anybody's messenger, he declared. He would carry the message only in an unofficial capacity, insisted that Nkrumah go in a separate plane...
...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's Nkrumah, Indonesia's Sukarno, Mali's Keita, Somalia's Adben Abdullah Osman, the Sudan's Ibrahim Abboud, Tunisia's Bourguiba and the U.A.R.'s Nasser...
...majority of independent Africans -some 95 million of free Africa's 186 million citizens. Significantly absent were the five obstreperous Casablanca powers: the U.A.R., Morocco, Guinea, Ghana and Mali (the Congo and South Africa were not invited). Originally, Guinea's Sekou Toure and Mali's Mobido Keita accepted. But Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, who destroys everything he cannot lead, talked them both out of going...