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...There was this connection I felt. Unfortunately, there were 50 of us who felt it." -Robin Solod, One of dozens of women who became engaged to U.S. Colonel Kassem Saleh, who fought in Afghanistan, after meeting him through online dating services...
Investigating, the police quickly found the source of the trouble: the Soviet embassy. While Guinea's drift toward Moscow looked alarming to the West, Moscow's Ambassador Daniel Solod had felt all along that the drift was not nearly strong or fast enough. He had no use for what Touré called his policy of "positive neutralism," felt he should move closer to outright Communism. Apparently Solod simply decided to help along a coup d'ètat to speed things...
...Twist. Touré was enraged by this treachery, even if it did come from his ideological pals. At a diplomatic reception, the presidential protocol officer pulled Ambassador Solod out of the crowd, asked him to go immediately to the Foreign Ministry. There, Guinean officials told the Russian he was persona non grata, must leave the country immediately...
...doubted Touré's basic loyalty to Marxism; it was likely that a new Soviet ambassador, perhaps less clumsy than his predecessor, would soon arrive to take Solod's place. And to help smooth things over, Moscow announced that Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan himself would arrive in Conakry soon after the first of the year for consultations. The fact remained that it was clearly too soon for the West - or for Russia - to write off Touré as a Moscow puppet...
...Soviets moved swiftly once colonial rule began to crumble. Overnight Russia's rulers created in Moscow a mammoth African research center headed by the Soviet Union's top African expert, Professor Ivan Potekhin. Top Soviet diplomatic talent was rushed to Africa, including Middle East Ace Daniel Solod, who is Moscow's Ambassador to Guinea, and hard-driving Ambassador to Congo Mikhail Yakovlev, whose clever footwork has gained him seemingly unrestricted access to Patrice Lumumba's office. Soviet diplomats have cleared the way for such projects as the African student scheme under which, last week, arrangements were...