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...troublesome. After an irate subscriber in Tahiti complained that he was receiving his TIME in batches via bimonthly freighter from Nouméa in New Caledonia, TIME distribution men worked out a biweekly air-freight schedule; circulation in Tahiti has since climbed from 60 to 108. Readers in New Guinea, who long complained about slow service, now receive air-expressed copies before the date of issue, and today number a record 1,300. But one lone subscriber on remote Christmas Island still receives his copies by fishing schooner once every three months...
...Africa's broad western bulge facing the Atlantic, freedom is already established or imminent almost everywhere. There, independent Ghana, Guinea and Liberia will soon be joined by the rest of France's fragmenting African empire. At least seven new sovereign African states will come into existence in 1960. First on the timetable was Cameroon; soon to come: Togoland, the sprawling, wealthy Belgian Congo, the Mali Federation of Senegal and French Sudan, little Somalia, and Madagascar. On Oct. 1, the 35 million people of Nigeria, most populous of all, will get formal independence. By year...
...sounded the same theme in Indonesia, where President Sukarno often uses the continued Dutch occupation of Western New Guinea to divert his countrymen's minds from the staggering national economy and the festering rebellions in the island.* In an extemporaneous speech Khrushchev cried: "Your country is rich, and it is understandable that the colonialists were reluctant to leave it," and he delivered himself of a cautionary homily: "You cannot get rid of colonialism with prayers any more than you can teach a tiger to eat grass. Independence is possible only by fighting...
...working to undermine 35-year-old Premier Ahma-dou Ahidjo's fledgling government. The party is led by Dr. Felix-Roland Moumie, who has been issuing Czech pistols to Bamileke tribesmen. Just back from Moscow, Moumie operates from his refuge in nearby really independent Guinea. His followers hide in the hills or attack from across the border in the neighboring British Cameroons...
...Some Africans argue that school curriculums should be changed ("Why study the industrial revolution when our problem is detribalization?"), along with college admissions standards ("Some of our brightest chemistry students score low in English and are disqualified"). But all agree that thousands more schools are needed. Says Allassane Diop, Guinea's levelheaded Information Minister: "Too many African nations want fancy colleges right away as prestige symbols without preparing students for them. In Guinea our first job is to reduce illiteracy and get our children into school-any school. College can wait...