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...carried out in various Army installations to see whether men with higher aptitudes could just as easily finish basic in four weeks instead of eight. These tests have been with draftees and regular troops up to now, but the RFA's would offer the Army an excellent group of guinea pigs...
...known as the Empire of the Mali (rhymes with Bali). Among its greatest rulers was a crippled boy named Sundiata Keita, who survived the murder of his eleven brothers and ascended the throne in 1230, to build a realm that was eventually to cover what is now Guinea, Senegal, the French Sudan and Ghana. Last week one of Sundiata's descendants, the Sudan's Modibo Keita, was in Dakar, capital of Senegal, as one of the architects of a modern revival of the old empire. Along with Senegal, Dahomey and the Voltaic Republic, the French Sudan completed...
...voted on the De Gaulle constitution, the federation was an answer to the fear of West African leaders such as Senegal's Leopold Senghor that the newly autonomous states within the French Community might become "Balkanized" and one by one fall prey to the ambitious new rulers of Guinea and Ghana...
KAINANTU, NEW GUINEA...
Never once did the British allow themselves to be drawn into the political wrangling. Instead, they contented themselves with a mild statement at the end of the meeting explaining that "our silence'' meant, not agreement with the anticolonial remarks, but only a "desire to preserve harmony." When Guinea, the only French territory to vote non to De Gaulle, proposed a resolution asking for special consideration from the U.N. in view of its "desertion" by France, the French merely stared ahead in silence, did not even bother to vote against the resolution. Africa's independent nations were clearly...