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Something strange had happened in Sofia. Rumors of a suicide in the Central Committee raced through the grim little capital. Had there been a plot against the government? A pro-Peking putsch, nipped in the bud by Russian agents? Or perhaps a pro-Tito rebellion aimed at making Bulgaria another "neutral" Yugoslavia...
...letter to the New York Times Hoffmann said that revolutionary wars have always been won on the ground and that decisive ground battles cannot be won in South Vietnam since the rebellion is too large and the central government too ineffective...
Mzee, the "old one," as he likes to be called, was once a Communist, then leader of the bloody Mau-Mau rebellion, and finally the first Prime Minister of Kenya. It might have been those eight years in a damp jail cell that made him creak a bit as he dropped to his knees. But that only made the student body cheer and whistle all the louder when Jomo Kenyatta knelt to become a Doctor of Laws. Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania and chancellor of newly founded East African University in Kampala, placed his own tasseled cap on Jomo...
...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...
Nkrumah's main worry was a rebellion of another kind. To promote his sagging pretensions as Africa's leader, he has invited the heads of all African states to a giant pan-African summit conference in September-and is pouring more than $4,000,000 into a project called "Job 600," a complex of halls and theaters being built in Accra to accommodate the conference. But his reputation for subversion has put him in such bad odor that many moderate Africans now threaten to boycott the summit...