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...outside, reported that army troops had captured 71 well-armed Ghanaian guerrillas fighting alongside the rebels. Rebel leader Holden Roberto, who directs the rebellion from his Leopoldville headquarters, has insisted that his U.P.A. has not had help from Ghana, professes to scorn Nkrumah as too leftist. But Ghana and Guinea have fostered a rival Communist-dominated group called the Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), and Nkrumah's meddlesome African Affairs Bureau has openly boasted of its efforts to foment rebellion in Angola...
...third program is somewhat more tentative. Harry L. Heintzen, deputy director of the Washington Office of the African-American Institute, has received offers for teachers from the government of Guinea...
...highest-ranking colleagues announcing a new and violent stage in Africa's struggle, fashioned on the model of Algeria's F.L.N. rebels. For the moment, declared the remarkable document, Ghana would have to share leadership of the new Africa with such ambitious states as the U.A.R., Guinea and Mali, but their influence is destined to wane, in the long run, as Ghana's star rises. The new phase of the liberation movement, the paper went on, will receive its "inspiration" and "arms" from the Soviet Union-flowing through Accra to the rest of Africa...
...Lenin Peace Prizes, awarded on May Day eve, honored a couple of unlikely apostles of tranquillity last week: Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro and Guinea's President Sékou Touré. To Touré the prize seemed something of a lefthanded compliment. "We are not Communists," he proclaimed, but he accepted anyway. Castro, not a bit abashed, announced that he might rush right off to Moscow to pick up his 25,000 rubles ($27,750), added with uncharacteristic modesty that he thought of the prize "not as a personal award, but as an unmatched and great honor...
...lighter vein, Bunche observed that "we don't have much humor at the U.N.... but we've been having a lot more since Adlai Stevenson arrived." He recalled the Stevenson's joke, originally from a Dutch diplomat, on one of the marks of progress--"now the people in New Guinea are eating only fishermen on Fridays...