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Pompidou's visit to francophone Africa is the first by a French President since Charles de Gaulle's historic preindependence tour in 1959. It will take him from the tent encampments of Nouakchott to the modern towers of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast, from the arid desert of Mauritania to the deep green rain forests of Cameroun, from the sight of heavily clad Berber women in the Sahara to bare-breasted girls in Yacunde. Scrupulously impartial, he and his entourage of 160-including Wife Claude, cool in summer outfits by Chanel, Cardin and Lanvin despite the oppressive heat...
Reliance on whites is even stronger in former French Africa. French con-seillers techniques swarm over Gabon, and as one of them puts it: "We no longer rule, we only advise. But if they don't take our advice-phfft! It's their country." In Abidjan, capital of the Ivory Coast, there are more than twice as many Frenchmen as there were in 1960. Ministerial office suites are constructed with two offices of equal size, one for the minister, the other for his French "seconder." In Niger, as elsewhere, students in the French-controlled schools are required...
...body feels the pain." Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere sent $1,500,000 in aid to Guinea. Libya dispatched arms. Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya and the Congo-Kinshasa promised help. Somalia opened recruiting centers for volunteers to fight in Guinea. University students demonstrated against white colonialism in Lusaka, Abidjan and Dar es Salaam. In Lagos, students toted placards reading DOWN WITH NATO and shouted "Go home, pigs!" at white passersby...
...Alouette helicopter piloted by a silver-haired Swede, drives about in Mercedes 600 limousines and sails the Congo River in his yacht the M.S. President Mobutu. Besides his house in the paratroop camp, he maintains a palace on Kinshasa's Mount Stanley and lavish villas in Lausanne and Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. To counteract rumors that he is a neocolonialist at heart, he has sought to identify himself with his old enemy Patrice Lumumba. Currently he is building a $10 million monument to Lumumba near the capital...
...Nigeria, or perhaps anywhere in Africa, is Ojukwu. After he fled the country, reports placed him in Lisbon, Paris, Geneva, Lusaka, Dar es Salaam, Libreville, São Tomé and Port-au-Prince. According to the story that emerged last week, Ojukwu was flown out of Uli to Abidjan, capital of the Ivory Coast. At the Abidjan airport, he transferred to an executive jet belonging to Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny and was flown 250 miles to the President's summer palace at Yamoussoukro, which is guarded by a pool of crocodiles. Ojukwu had hoped to establish...