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...four countries of West Africa. In response, Africans turned out by the tens, and hundreds of thousands. Normal activity in Nigeria's capital of Lagos all but stopped, as streets filled with crowds of well-wishers bearing pennants and portraits of the Pope. Fully half the population of Bata, capital of tiny Equatorial Guinea, came out to greet him and threw palm branches to blanket his path. In neighboring Gabon, a special residence for the Pontiff was built in two weeks. Even the Marxist state of Benin fell under the spell, as posters with Bible quotations went up next...
Macias, a sleepy-eyed, impetuous demagogue, noted that Spanish officials in Bata, the capital, had had the temerity to fly three Spanish flags over official buildings-one beyond the quota. Late in February, he sent his personal guard to haul one flag down. When the Spanish ambassador dropped by to discuss the matter, Macias ordered him out of his office and cabled Madrid to demand that he be recalled. A few days later, Foreign Minister Ndongo and U.N. Ambassador Ibongo (also a Fang) arrived in Bata and the situation deteriorated still further...
...Macias' increasingly anti-Spanish attitude, was enough to persuade more than 2,000 Spaniards to flee the country. According to Macias, Ibongo poisoned himself in prison, though some Spaniards maintain he was beaten to death in his cell. Spokesmen for Macias said Ndongo was being treated in a Bata hospital. The 260-man Spanish garrison still remains. Macias, after first ordering them to leave, seems to trust his own troops no longer...
...They Want Computers" [June 10], TIME says that "Bata Shoe" technicians showed up at the International Computer Exhibition in Prague. The context is such that readers might infer that Bata is a Communist operation headquartered in Czechoslovakia. But for more than 25 years there have been no contacts between Bata Ltd. and the Communists in any country; no members of our organization went to the Prague exhibition. Probably those technicians who appeared came from the nationalized Czechoslovakian footwear industry, which in the main comprises the factories belonging to the Bata organization that were expropriated some 20 years...
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