Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 23

Tribalism and Ocean Split African Nation angry unemployed youth, the flight of Spaniards and other Europeans, and appeals for U.N. troops. Equatorial Guinea is one of half a dozen newly free small countries in Africa. They range from Gambia, with a popula-tion of 343,000 in an area smaller than Connecticut, to Botswana whose 593,000 people are in an expanse the size of Texas. This country has little else but independence.

It is split by tribes, politics, economics and the Altantic Ocean. In mainland Rio Muni are 200,000 Fangs tribesmen. On Fernando Poo, 160 miles northwest, are about 20,000 Bubis. THE STATE JOURNAL Lansing, Michigan Mar. 19, 1969 B-9 Where They Are Now MORRISSEY Thomas L.

Momssey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rex E. Momssey, 3843 Still-well, has been promoted to airman first class in the United States Air Force. Airman Mor-nssey is a weapons mechanic at McConnell Air Force Base, in a unit of the Tactical Air Command.

1 "jpm" I.AJJ.,IM1,.. II I .1 llllljl yfe. a FRAHD0S EIGHT SETS TO BE GIVEN AWAY AT SHOPPING CENTER By ARNOLD ZEITLIN SANTA ISABEL, Equatorial Guinea (AP) Recent tumult in this small country reflects some the problems that independence has brought to the ministates of Africa. Freed last October as part of a Spanish design to establish anticolonial credentials at the United Nations, Equatorial Guinea has staggered from one crisis to another. It is a country of 250,000 persons, arranged unevenly between the relatively rich cocoa-growing island of Fernando Poo, sometimes called Nanny Poo, and the populous but poor West African mainland province of Rio Muni.

Just now it is in the math of an attempted coup. Foreign Minister Etanasio Ndogo tried to topple President Francisco Macias Nguema. Before that the fledgling regime was at odds with Spain in a quarrel starting over the right Enter Your Family Now! i You May WDM a Til pry off the top 'Maybe I can twist it off. I'll bite it off." RAFF Sgt. Jack A.

Raff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Raff, 2319 Strathmore Lane, is a member of the 858th Radar Squadron at Fallon Air Force Station, that has earned the Aerospace Defense Command Award. The unit won the award for maintaining a high degree of operational effectiveness and combat readiness during a two-year period.

Sgt. Raff, who is married to the former Suzanne H. Gray, is a refrigeration and air conditioning specialist. a complete set of Britannica Written especially for CHILD-SAFE Try as she will, 4-year-old Kathy Allen of Los Angeles cannot open this medicine bottle. It's the new Palm-N-Turn vial which reportedly is child-safe but easily opened by adults.

The top is palmed', pressure applied with the other hand, depressing a springy ring and unfastening locking lugs, and the top is twisted off. Palm-N-T is designed to bring a halt to accidental poisoning of children, particularly of preschool age. From 75 to 90 per cent of accidental poisonings of the more than a half -million annually in the United States occur among children five years of age or younger. Junior grade school children 15 colorfully illustrated volumes Over 7,600 pages Register Now! of the Spaniards to fly three and not two flags in Bata, the largest mainland town. The dispute, reflecting more serious anti-Spanish feeling, blossomed into a state of emergency, curfew, street patrols of Register March 19 through April 6 at Exhibits in Most FRANDOR STORES SMITH Tech.

Sgt. Donald P. Smith, whose wife, Jeanne, is the daughter, of Thurston T. Lown, 4604 Nanatta Road, Oke-mos, has been given a cash award of $25 at Nellis Air Force Base, for his military improvement suggestion. Sgt.

Smith submitted the suggestion as part of the Air Force-wide cost reduction campaign. He is a safety technician with a unit of the Tactical Air Command. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Gilford Smith, 520 Greenwood.

IS OB ACH Michael M. No- bach, son of Mr. and Mrs Maynard H. Nobach, R. 2, Bauer Fowler, has been promoted to airman first class in me United States Air Force.

He is a weapons mechanic at ivicuonneu Air Force Base, in a unit of the Tactical Air Command. LONG Seaman Robert C. Long, U.S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Long, 102 Wil-lard, is serving aboard the fleet oiler USS Cacapon at Long Beach, Calif. GOINS Marine Lance Cpl. Norman L. Goins, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Jesse E. Goins, 216 Guenther, is serving with the Second Battalion, Fourth Marines, Third Marine Division, in South Vietnam. LERMA Henry Lerma son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lerma 1209 E.

High, has joined the United States Marine Corps and will undergo recruit training in San Diego, Calif. VAN ALSTINE Spec. 4 Kenneth Van Alstine son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Van Al-stine, 218 Hume, has been spending a leave at home.

He has been stationed at Ft. Ben-ning, and following his leave he will report to Ft. Dix, N.J., for assignment to duty in Germany. Spec. 4 Van Alstine entered the service in April of 1968 and received basic training at Ft.

Knox, Ky. and advanced individual training at Ft. Lee, Va. EDDIE Laird P. Eddie, 25, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Warren C. Eddie, 3005 Emerald Circle, has been promoted to Army captain while serving as the attack helicopter branch chief with the U.S. Army Ordnance Center and School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. BROWN Army Pfc.

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