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Like the boy who cried "Wolf!" Guinea's Marxist President Sékou Touré has called for help in fighting off invasions or coups so many times that people scarcely listen to him any more. Once it was a cabal of teachers and trade unionists from within Guinea. Another time it was a plot against Guinea launched by Ivory Coast President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, a longtime Touré enemy. There was an authentic assassination attempt by a knife-wielding Guinean in 1969, but the young fanatic bungled the job, and was lynched...
Nkrumah has avoided the cage. He is ensconced in a seaside villa in the Guinean capital of Conakry, 980 miles from Accra, where he studies French, carries on a voluminous correspondence with his remaining admirers and hatches schemes for a triumphal return. Though Sékou Touré, Guinea's leader, has distinctly cooled on his initial offer to share power and prestige with Nkrumah, he continues to give Nkrumah sanctuary. Nkrumah's presence is thus still felt in Ghana, especially by the military men of the National Liberation Council who now run the country...
...immediately arose among his neighbors that he might invite back the Red Chinese, who were expelled by the old King in 1965 for meddling in Burundi affairs. Soon the capital of Bujumbura began to fill up with leftist emissaries from Nasser and from Guinea's ambitious Sékou Tour...
...from its 800 bottling plants abroad, and it still holds the largest share of the foreign market for U.S. soft drinks. Every day, from Australia to the Apennines, 85 million customers call for a Coke, referring to it as Ha-Ha in Ethiopia's Amharic language or Ko-Kou Ko-Lo, which in Mandarin Chinese also trans lates into "palatable and enjoyable." Coke is being pressed, though not very hard, by Pepsi-Cola, which since 1960 has doubled its foreign sales. The Coke-Pepsi battle, with its advertising campaigns, developed a market for all kinds of U.S. soft drinks...
...fairly obvious that military coups in Africa, now that the precedent has been set, are only beginning, and any number of nervous politicians are wondering whether they will be the next to fall. One obvious candidate is Guinea, where leftist President Sékou Touré has all but disenfranchised the majority Foulah tribesmen, and is making an even greater mess of his economy than Kwame Nkrumah did in Ghana. Another is Niger, which has grown sullen and restive after Hamani Diori's eight years of corruption and mismanagement. Strife between northerners and southerners keeps tension high in Senegal...