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...Ahmahou Ahidjo had all gone smoothly. To all, he had pledged U.S. moral support for the effort to win freedom for blacks in those nations ruled by white minorities, but had ruled out direct participation in violent solutions. Continuing to display his low profile, Rogers had listened quietly and attentively to Black African leaders, who seemed impressed with his receptivity to ideas. That receptivity was nicely illustrated in Ghana. During talks with Prime Minister Kofi Busia, Rogers was asked for a $15 million aid loan. The request was granted immediately...
...Cameroun, President Ahmadou Ahidjo is up against a powerful separatist movement. Burundi's last two Prime Ministers have been assassinated, and a police coup was barely avoided last October. Rumors of an impending military coup grew so strong in Uganda last month that Prime Minister Milton Obote's entire Cabinet went into hiding for two days. Obote himself suspended the constitution, closed Parliament, seized all power and fired the army commander...
Political parties: 7. Voters: 77%. Only former French dependency with strong political opposition. Communists outlawed by fanatically anti-Red President Ahmadou Ahidjo. Well-trained African civil service...
...Senegal's President Léopold Sédar Senghor and Premier Mamadu Dia, Niger's President Hamani Diori, the Upper Volta's President Maurice Yameogo, Dahomey's Premier Hubert Maga, Mauritania's President Mocktar and Ould Daddah, Cameroun's President Ahmadou Ahidjo, plus ministers plenipotentiary of the Central African Republic, Gabon and Chad. But Mali sent only an observer; Togo, currently feuding with Houphouet-Boigny, did not attend...
Last week, as soon as the voters approved his constitution, Premier Ahidjo dramatically lifted the ban against Moumié's UPC. But what seemed like a surrender was actually a shrewd move. In the "general's" absence, a strong and respectable opposition has grown up within his party, and Moumié himself seems to be slipping: in the face of his personal command to boycott the referendum, a record 75% of the entire electorate still went to the polls...