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...Ghana Airways jet. The Russians then worked furiously to get them all back up again for Nehru's arrival a bare 50 minutes later. Nkrumah himself was discreetly spirited away from the airport in a Bentley so as not to intrude upon Nehru's red-carpet welcome by Khrushchev, and he stayed in Moscow only long enough to join Nehru to deliver the Belgrade letter to Khrushchev. Then Nkrumah flew off to the Crimea where his family is vacationing...
...Belgrade, having patched up their bitter, four-year-old quarrel. Even in their approach to the cold war, the delegates sharply differed: U.A.R.'s Nasser and U Nu ruthlessly repress their local Communists; Indonesia's Sukarno and Ghana's Nkrumah (fresh from a red-carpet visit to Russia) actively encourage them...
...wall, the Communists were busy stamping out the unrest that had swept the nation ever since the Berlin crackdown. Dozens of East Germans went on trial for "insulting the state." Many panic-stricken East Germans who bought up groceries and clothing in fear of war were called on the carpet for hoarding. There was still a trickle of refugees sneaking out to the West. One mason who was at work on the wall itself leapfrogged over the cement blocks and fled into West Berlin when his day's labor was done. Less fortunate was the man who jumped into...
...Houphouet-Boigny. The Ivory Coast was celebrating its first anniversary of independence after more than a century of French rule. Arriving in Abidjan, capital of the New Mexico-sized nation of coffee and cocoa plantations, Attorney General Kennedy was met at an airport reception with red carpet and tribal dances. Manfully (since he facetiously says that it took him eight years to complete second-year French in school). Bobby Kennedy delivered a graceful speech in French. (He was helped by phonetic notes on words like "ann-day-pon-dons" and "Hoo-fwet Bwa-nyee...
...West, before finding their natural home in Las Vegas eight years ago. All three are now residents there, are married and have seven children among them. By now they are more than singers; they are entrepreneurs. Norman, most notably, is an insurance agent and securities salesman, also owns a carpet and drapery shop, and with five offices and a sales force of 40 on his payroll, is far and away the biggest real estate operator in the state of Nevada...