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Last summer Nkrumah's government passed a law granting a 14?-a-day wage increase to gold miners. This wiped out the benefits of a subsidy the government was giving the shakier mines. The British owners threatened to close two of the mines, wiping out 2,000 jobs. Nkrumah...
Not everybody else was bored in 1960, and there were some adventurers?bearing spears in the Congo or banging shoes at the U.N.?who could hardly be called scientific. But the world of 1960 will readily agree with Chemist Willard Libby that U.S. scientists and their colleagues in other...
Throughout the land of the Bakuba, village after village jumped with excitement as the girls celebrated their freedom. At one hamlet, twelve miles from King Lukengu's seat, Mbawota, 25, a royal wife since childhood and mother of one of Lukengu's many sons, threw her arms wide...
But it was too soon to proclaim an end to chaos. In secessionist Katanga, Baluba tribesmen rose in bloody revolt in the tin-mining town of Manono after police broke up a demonstration by tossing a hand grenade that killed two tribesmen. Anointed by a witch doctor with a potion...
After getting her report card, Charlene barricaded herself in the family bomb shelter that her housepainter father recently built off the cellar. Last week she emerged with a bomb for the school board -a scathing letter of protest, which the Manchester Evening Herald promptly published. Her complaint: that "in the...