Word: liberians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Liberian capital of Monrovia, Flight 150 took on a party of dapper, dark-suited Guineans - Foreign Minister Louis Beavogui, three aides and 15 "students" bound for a conference of African foreign ministers in Ethiopia. Apparently they were not aware that an interim stop would put them down briefly at Accra, capital of Ghana. Otherwise, they might have traveled another route. After all, since last February, when Kwame Nkrumah was ousted by a military coup and took refuge in Guinea, the two nations have been the bitterest of enemies...
...plain enough. The Yarmouth Castle was one of half a dozen ships, all aging, all under foreign flags, that carry American tourists on cruises to the West Indies, charging as little as $59 for the round-trip run from Miami to Nassau. Launched in 1927, she has flown U.S., Liberian and Panamanian flags, was registered in Panama when she went down. Thus, though long past the retirement age for U.S. passenger ships, generally kept in service no more than 20 years, she was required under international law to meet only the lax safety standards in force when she was built...
...friendship-promoting Alliance, which meets once every five years, has no authority over its member churches; nonetheless, delegates to the Miami Beach meeting hailed the election of Tolbert as a "breakthrough." A banker and mining executive as well as a lay pastor of a Liberian church, Tolbert seemed less excited by the significance of his election than were some other Baptists. "I haven't given it much thought," he said. "You see, we are not really racially conscious in Liberia...
...mostly onetime U.S. Defense Department officials who in 1958 bought out the New York-based Marine Transport Lines, which is bidding for the Niarchos fleet and is anxious to keep it out of foreign hands. Through a complicated maze of companies, they operate 61 ships under American and Liberian flags. Leading the group is H. (for Harris) Lee White, 52, former Air Force Assistant Secretary, now a partner in the Wall Street law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Other principals are ex-Deputy Defense Secretary Roger Kyes (now a General Motors vice president); the estate of ex-Defense Secretary Charles...
...Marine Transport figures that it can make money in the world's biggest floating crap game. Being an American firm, it will escape the anti-Niarchos sentiment, but can collect the low-tax, low-wage benefits that Niarchos already enjoys by keeping most of his ships under the Liberian flag. The company's executives are also impressed that Niarchos' Greek competitors are more optimistic about the future of shipping than he is, now have $500 million worth of ships on order. Niarchos himself is building one new supertanker in France (not included in this deal...