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Though Inter-Continental also operates sumptuous establishments on such beaten paths as Geneva, Dublin, Frankfurt and Vienna, most of its 36 hotels have altered the skyline of such places as Abidjan, Amman, Bali, Bangkok, Djakarta, Monrovia and Dacca. The formula-an oasis in the ham-and-egg-less desert-has proved so successful that last week workmen were busy with major expansions of six InterContinental hotels. Completely new additions to the chain were rising at Lahore and Rawalpindi in Pakistan, Nicaragua's Managua, and Auckland, N.Z. This month the company will break ground in Manila, and architects are drafting...
...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...
...with their congregations that ministers straight out of college cannot have. Methodist Preacher Russ Kemmerer, 33, a moderately successful pitcher in the major leagues for nine years-mostly with the Boston Red Sox and Washington Senators-finds his sports background invaluable in counseling youthful members of his church in Monrovia...
...Organization for African Unity. This fledgling Pan-African grouping of 33 states was created last May at Addis Ababa, where Emperor Haile Selassie sponsored the latest moves toward continental unity. The O.A.U. is an amalgam of two earlier unity attempts that had failed (the Casablanca Pact and the Monrovia Group), and with its insistence on African solutions to African problems, it listened with sympathy to Nyerere's story, effectively absolved him of his sin. Shaken but still alive, Julius Nyerere set out to rebuild his army and his popularity...
...TOMBEKAI DEMPSTER Monrovia, Liberia...