Two 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...
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