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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public-works program, let the Czechs manage Conakry's harbor and advise the army, invited dozens of Red Chinese technicians to help with the rice crop. Most important, he welcomed more than 500 Russians who brought with them promises of credits of more than $56 million for an array of technical projects; scores of Guinean students went to Moscow with Soviet scholarships...
History of Failure. U.N.-and American-involvement in the Congo was all but inevitable the moment, in 1959, when Belgium hastily and irresponsibly agreed to withdraw from a colony it had never prepared for independence. Into the resultant vacuum were swept a bewildering array of 65 political parties. One dominant-but erratic and unstable-figure emerged: Patrice Lumumba. Head of a shaky coalition regime that took control of the Congo, after free elections, in June 1960, Lumumba favored strong central government. This was anathema to Tshombe. who had no intention of sharing the wealth of his mineral-rich province with...
...president, held out fiercely against the idea of a tightly unitary central government when all the Congo's African leaders sat down at the famous 1960 Round Table Conference in Brussels to discuss a future independent Congo. It was there that his colleagues first began to notice the array of white advisers who were constantly at Tshombe's elbow, passing him notes, whispering suggestions. Some were from Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, the huge, Belgian-controlled corporation that mines and processes Katanga's rich veins of copper and cobalt; other advisers were from Katanga...
Censored Scholarship. As long as the Volta River loan still hung in the balance. Osagyefo (The Redeemer) is willing to court the favor of the U.S. Opening the U.S. Trade Fair in Accra last week. Nkrumah ogled an array of exhibits from tractors to a U.S. Negro bathing beauty, made a great show of comparing Ghana's present stage of development with that of the early American colonies. Actively playing the neutrality game, however, he asserted that "capital and technical knowledge have no respect for political frontiers," and insisted that he had no reason to apologize for "the steps...
...have you ever been, a teen-ager perplexed by an array of silverware or by the problem of what to do with a finger bowl...