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Last week four of the noisiest radicals - Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Sekou Toure of Guinea, Algeria's Ben Bella and Mali's Modibo Keita-met in the dusty West African capital of Bamako for an emergency conference to see what could be done. Answer: not much...
...been in Bamako less than five hours when he suddenly decided he had urgent business elsewhere and flew home. That left only Ben Bella and Keita, who could not leave because he was the host. They talked alone for two hours, and one of their subjects, presumably, was Mali's Tuareg nomads, who, with Ben Bella's support, recently staged an abortive rebellion against Keita. Next day, the two flew down to Conakry for another brief chat with Tour...
...Peking-Djakarta axis that raises some disturbing problems for both East and West. The Russians have invested $1 billion in arms and aid to Indonesia, only to find Sukarno plunging into the Peking camp. And thoughtful U.N. diplomats wonder if such anti-Western nations as Cambodia, Mali and perhaps half a dozen others might not be tempted in time by Peking's U.N., if in fact it ever gets off the ground...
...country from the U.N. if his arch-enemy Malaysia got one of the seats, it was clear that Malaysia, as well as Uruguay and the Netherlands, had more than enough strength to win places without a formal vote. But the fourth seat was hotly contested by both Jordan and Mali, and until all four were filled, the Security Council could not meet...
Trouble was, the secret nonballot failed to produce a winner-which, under the U.N. charter, must receive two-thirds of the votes. A second "consul tation" was called for, and a third, but although Jordan was unofficially ahead, Mali proved unsinkable. In the end, Quaison-Sackey forged a compromise: the two nations would split the two-year term, with Jordan seated first. The deal was approved "without objection," and Quaison-Sackey dismissed the Assembly until...