COMMUNISTS 2-12 AH, FOREIGN AID THE COMMUNISTS HAVE POURED OUT THEIR MILLIONS 
TOO, TRYING TO WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF AFRICA . 
SOMETIMES, MOSCOW MUST WONDER WHETHER IT IS WORTH ALL THE EFFORT 
. IN BULGARIA, 200 AFRICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ON COMMUNIST SCHOLARSHIPS MARCHED 
DOWN SOFIA'S LENIN BOULEVARD TOWARD THE OFFICE OF PREMIER TODOR ZHIVKOV 
TO PROTEST GOVERNMENT RESTRICTIONS . INSTEAD OF SYMPATHY, THEY WERE MET 
BY 600 BULGARIAN MILITIAMEN, WHO FLAILED THE AFRICANS WITH CLUBS AND 
HAULED THEM OFF TO JAIL . ALL THE STUDENTS HAD ASKED 
FOR WAS PERMISSION TO MAINTAIN AN ALL-AFRICA STUDENT UNION . LIKE 
OTHER AFRICANS IN EASTERN EUROPE, THE 350 AFRICAN STUDENTS IN BULGARIA 
FOUND MORE SEGREGATION THAN BROTHERHOOD, MORE INDOCTRINATION THAN EDUCATION . AFTER 
THE RIOT, GHANA'S AMBASSADOR LODGED A STRONG PROTEST WITH THE BULGARIAN 
GOVERNMENT, AND JUST ABOUT ALL OF THE AFRICANS IN SOFIA DECIDED 
TO PACK UP AND SEEK EDUCATION ELSEWHERE . " WE HAVE 
BEEN INSULTED IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY, " SAID GHANAIAN AGRICULTURAL STUDENT 
ROBERT KOTEY AS HE ARRIVED IN VIENNA . " WE WERE 
MOLESTED IN THE STREETS, CALLED " BLACK MONKEYS' AND " JUNGLE 
PEOPLE,' AND PEOPLED USED TO SPIT OUT BEFORE US ON BUSES 
AND TRAINS . " CONCLUDED GHANAIAN ECONOMICS STUDENT KOFI BUCKLE : 
" WE SOON REALIZED THAT TO STUDY IN A COMMUNIST COUNTRY 
IS A BLOODY WASTE OF TIME . " IN GUINEA, ONCE 
REGARDED AS A FOOTHOLD OF SOVIET PENETRATION OF AFRICA, RUSSIA'S STOCK 
FELL TO A NEW LOW WITH L'AFFAIRE SVETLANA . IT HAD 
TO DO WITH A BLONDE RUSSIAN EXCHANGE TEACHER NAMED SVETLANA USHAKOVA 
. AGAINST EMBASSY INSTRUCTIONS, SHE PERSISTED IN MAKING FRIENDS WITH THE 
NATIVES, AND IGNORED ORDERS THAT SHE RETURN TO RUSSIA . FORTNIGHT 
AGO, SHE WAS HUSTLED TO A MOSCOW-BOUND PLANE, ONLY TO BE 
RESCUED BY THE GUINEANS THEMSELVES . ON A SECOND VAIN ATTEMPT 
TO GET SVETLANA TO MOSCOW, RUSSIA'S AMBASSADOR TO GUINEA HIMSELF TRIED 
TO PASS HER OFF AS THE AIRCRAFT'S STEWARDESS . THEN A 
FEW DAYS LATER, THE RUSSIAN CULTURAL ATTACHE AND TWO AIDES SNATCHED 
SVETLANA FROM A CONAKRY RESTAURANT AND SPED OFF TOWARD THE AIRPORT 
. THAT WAS TOO MUCH . THE GUINEANS TOSSED ALL THREE 
INTO JAIL FOR THE NIGHT, REINSTALLED SVETLANA IN HER SCHOOL, AND 
BEGAN TO WONDER WHERE FOREIGN AID STOPS AND FOREIGN INTERFERENCE BEGINS 
. 