GUINEA: Toure on Tour

GUINEA Touré on Tour As their President traveled in high style through foreign lands last week, thousands of Guineans back home crowded excitedly around big bulletin boards plastered with pictures and reports of Sékou Touré's trip. They had reason to be proud. There he was. aged 37, and head of a nation only 14 months old, hobnobbing with the big names of world affairs. He had chatted with Dwight Eisenhower in Washington, dined with Harold Macmillan at 10 Downing Street, got the red-carpet treatment in Bonn from Konrad Adenauer.

After all this, his...

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