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...Moscow last week grinning Ghanaian diplomats gleefully celebrated the signing of a $45 million contract for Soviet development of their nation's mineral and industrial resources. In the Hotel de France in Guinea's steaming capital of Conakry, the lingua franca of the lobby has shifted from French to Russian. At Leopoldville and Stanleyville in tne Congo, Soviet Ilyushin transports buzz familiarly in and out, debouching badly needed food -plus intelligence officers, tactical advisers for premier Patrice Lumumba's army and, according to Western intelligence reports, arms and ammunition...
...Eastern Europeans were varity in black Africa, and, though occasional African nationalists turned up in Moscow to study, not one Pravda Page in so mentioned the continent's name. Last week, everywhere Western diplomats turned. Communist weeds were sprouting in the freshly plowed soil of African nationhood Guinea's Sekou Toure turned to the East for aid after France responded to his demand for independence by withdrawing everything down to the Government House furniture NOW he has Czechs operating his airports, Poles running his public works and East Germans building him a big new radio station. Ethiopia...
...will be anything but a free soul. Swathed like a mummy in a cumbersome, confining space suit and strapped firmly to a couch, he will be able to perform only the simplest of manual tasks during his tour around the earth. His real job: to act as a human guinea pig for astrophysiologists, supply information on human behavior in the alien environment of space. Says Martin Co.'s Robert Demoret: "The important thing is to determine whether he can function effective, ly once he is up there. And that can only be done with any certainty by putting...
...result was the recent Nixon-Kennedy flap over who should pay air fares for 250 U.S.-bound East African students. A more useful result was the Government's post-independence offer of scholarships for 150 Guinea students and 300 from the Congo...
...this enough? Last week a sharp answer came from Manhattan's Phelps-Stokes Fund, one of the oldest (1911) U.S. foundations concerned with African education. While praising the Guinea-Congo offer, the Fund called for "action by the United States Government on a broader-perhaps regional-scale." From both dependent and independent African areas, said the Fund, the U.S. should bring in "some thousands of students per year...