Word: tour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NOWHERE CITY, by Alison Lurie. Because Novelist Lurie can make preposterous characters come alive-or at least breathe a little-her tour of Los Angeles' gaudier unrealities is just, but just, worth the rubberneck fare...
...what he could to recover his job from the army officers who had deposed him fortnight ago. Flitting from Peking to Moscow, he put in a plaintive demand for troops to restore him in command, then, in desperation, flew off to Guinea to see his friend Sékou Tour...
...news from Guinea that the Ghanaian ambassador and his staff were being held under house arrest during Nkrumah's visit, Ankrah broke relations with Sékou Touré. He re-established the relations Nkrumah had broken off with Britain, which returned the compliment by recognizing his regime (as did the U.S. last week). Ankrah also closed up The Redeemer's guerrilla training camps with the curt announcement that Ghana's "days of harboring political refugees to subvert other states are over." Then he ordered 900 Russian and 200 Chinese "advisers" to leave the country...
...fairly obvious that military coups in Africa, now that the precedent has been set, are only beginning, and any number of nervous politicians are wondering whether they will be the next to fall. One obvious candidate is Guinea, where leftist President Sékou Touré has all but disenfranchised the majority Foulah tribesmen, and is making an even greater mess of his economy than Kwame Nkrumah did in Ghana. Another is Niger, which has grown sullen and restive after Hamani Diori's eight years of corruption and mismanagement. Strife between northerners and southerners keeps tension high in Senegal...
There is still a faint glimmer of hope that Harvard might land in a three-way tie for the league title, if Princeton pulls off a miracle and somehow manages to beat Cornell. The prospect should be discussed in hushed tones only; if it occurs, tour wrestling since Jacob took on the angel...