Word: sub-saharan
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...Harry S Truman) as head of an eight-man mission to weigh the U.N.'s arms needs. Seven of the eight are members of a top-drawer planning group called JTF4 (for Joint Task Force 4), set up in 1961 to chart long-range military contingency plans for sub-Saharan Africa. As General Truman flew into Leopoldville, Swedish, Philippine and Italian fighter planes were headed toward the Congo for U.N. use, and 1,800 Indonesian infantrymen and a unit of 300 Norwegian antiaircraft gunners were en route to join the Congo force...
Goshal, who recently interviewed leaders of sub-Saharan Africa, repeatedly insisted that though nations like Ghana have just attained independence, the U.S. wrongly expects them to behave with the political sophistication that took America 200 years to develop...