East Germany under Communist rule faces border clashes and Western influence
A reporter describes East Germany near the West German border as Soviet backed and isolated yet culturally tied to the West. He notes strict border controls, propaganda, and a populace split between loyalty to the regime and longing for Western goods and contact, contrasted with West German television and personal links abroad.
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Weimar
East Germany
West Berlin
Soviet Union
Germany
West Germany
Dresden
Oder- Neisse
U.S
Leipzig
Finsterwalde
United States
Max
New Haven
Santa Monica
Calif
Las Vegas
Arizona
Utah
Weimer
Goethe
Schiller
Wittenberg
Luther
Wartburg
Berlin
East
Demise of Mao Won't End Soviet Chinese Wrangling
Moscow observers doubt Mao’s death will repair Sino Soviet ties as old suspicions and Chinese nationalism keep the border clash alive. Kremlin voices praise for opponents of Mao and warn future regimes may be anti Soviet, fueling a sustained anti Chinese mood in Russia.
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Mao
Moscow
Mao Tse-tung
Mao Tsetung
Soviet
Communist Party
Moscow-Peking
Chinese Communist Party
Kremlin
Alexei N. Kosygin
London
China
Soviet Union
Ghana's Big Birthday Emblem of Freedom
A decade after independence on March 6 1957 Ghana marks its release from colonial rule. Kwame Nkrumah in a midnight address proclaims a new African in the Commonwealth as the Union Jack falls and the Ghana flag rises. The scene recalls the wind of change across Africa.
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Accra
Ghana
Sahara
Liberia
Harold Macmillan
Kwame Nkrumah
Africa at ten years of independence facing turmoil and debt
The piece tracks Africa a decade after independence, noting coups, economic strain, and leadership doubts. It cites Ghana, Nigeria, Congo, Liberia, and U Thant’s “decade of development” while highlighting aid cuts by major powers and shifting Western attitudes. It also mentions the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital project in Liberia and persistent child mortality.
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Sen
J. William Fulbright
Dark
Senate
Everett Dirksen
Illinois
U.S
Africa
Moravia
Liberia
John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital
New EROS Satellites Could Change World Policy and Science
A new family of Earth Resources Observation Satellites will orbit starting in 1969 under a 20 million dollar Interior Department program. The project aims to map surfaces, monitor crops, traffic, water, and urban development while addressing privacy and data access concerns.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
Earth Resources Observation Satellites
EROS
Interior Department
Soveriegn
United States
Secretary of the Interior
Stewart L. Udall
William T. Pecora
Geological Survey
Pecora
Earth
Liberia Debt Fallout From Prestige Building Drives Crisis
Liberia’s push to rival West African neighbors led to a 125 million dollar debt. Projects from a 6 million presidential palace to a 4 million Temple of Justice strained finances. By 1963 interest and principal reached 33 million, with debt service consuming 22 percent of a 50 million dollar annual budget and rising toward 30 percent by 1968. A loan from the IMF aided renegotiation as calls for oil refining loom.
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Liberans
Department of Information
Temple of Justice
Supreme
Treasury
Monrovia
Liberia
U.S
International Monetary Fund
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By Hubert J. Erb
By Arnold Zeitlin
Julius Nyerere
Organization of African Unity
Nyerere
Nkrumah
Conakry
Guinea
Ity
Nigeria
The
Congo
Belgium
Col
A. A. Afrifa
United Nations
U Thant
Dauda K. Jawara
Gambia
Britain
France
William A. Fischer
Fischer
Departments of Commerce and Agriculture
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Moon
Charles T. C. King
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