Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonn Dulles found Konrad Adenauer willing to appear flexible but skeptical of making any substantial concessions to Russia. In particular, Adenauer is wary of anything that smacks of "confederation,'1 the Russian scheme to link East and West Germany by loose federal institutions. Asks Adenauer scornfully: "Can fire and water confederate...
Macmillan has not seen Russia since a tourist visit in 1929. He hoped to be able to provide the West with a clearer understanding of Soviet intentions. "I will not be going to Moscow to conduct a negotiation," he emphasized, "but something perhaps in the nature of a reconnaissance...
...football field just outside Conakry, the graceful, black-skinned Guinea women danced tirelessly, sinuously. Blue silken turbans, spangled with gold, flashed in the blazing sun, as they stomped, glided, clapped their hands and leaped about. The clanking of the xylophones rose to fever pitch, then died away. Three griots (West African minstrels )-one in a leather cape adorned with bits of mirror, another carrying a musket, and the third strumming on a one-string gourd guitar-wailed out a chant in honor of the man who for two solid hours had been the center of all the attention. Finally. Sekou...
...role. Though Africa was, until the Europeans came, the continent that could not write, it had known its times of glory. Guinea was once part of the powerful Mali Empire that stretched from the French Sudan, on the upper reaches of the Niger, to just short of West Africa's Atlantic Coast. When its 14th century ruler, the Mansa (Sultan) Musa, made his pilgrimage to Mecca, he traveled with a caravan of 60,000 men, and among his camels were 80 that each bore 300 Ibs. of gold. He built his wife a swimming pool in the desert...
...Almamy Samory Touré, who pledged himself to an enemy chief and became a slave so that his captive mother could be released. Like the Biblical Joseph, he rose to head the enemy tribe, fought the French until 1898 when he was captured. The French swarmed over French West and French Equatorial Africa and Madagascar-an area 14 times the size of France. But the legend lived on of the warrior Samory, whom Sekou Toure claims as his grandfather...