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...Rome and Cairo filed stories on the weird assault on the former Aga Khan's widow. In Ghana, a reporter was on hand to see what may prove to be the historic meeting between two of Africa's rising young leaders, the Prime Ministers of Ghana and Guinea, a unique merger of independent nations once British and French...
...months ago. led by a young black strongman named Sekou Toure, Guinea became the only territory in French Africa to reject the constitution of Premier Charles de Gaulle. Last week Touré, threatened with the loss of all his economic ties with France, flew off to Ghana. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah was at the Accra airport with bands, a 21-gun salute, and a cheering crowd bearing placards saying, WELCOME LABORMAN . . . LIBERATOR OF GUINEA! Toure had made no secret of the fact that he wanted intimate ties with Ghana. But just how close those ties were to be came...
Next steps: to draw up a common constitution and to invite other African states (mostly in French West Africa) to join the union, too. As a dowry, Nkrumah promised Guinea a credit of ?10 million. Both Prime Ministers agreed not to pass up any of the advantages their old colonial masters might still offer, with Ghana remaining in the British Commonwealth, and the republic of Guinea seeking ties with the new "French Community...
...guinea pig for the HUT last spring, Goldberg worked in a history class at Newton High. He and Social Studies teacher Charles Peltier worked together on a short unit about Karl Marx. He found that a new vocabulary was needed for teaching in high school, but after a session he confirmed that...
...tension and tempers mounted, Hoffman countered with the statement that the colonies had had an option to choose independence in the recent constitutional referendum. He went on to say that Guinea had voted for independence and had received it as promised...