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Perkins is quick to assert that HIID would never consider a project in a country with a record of "extreme human rights violations." He cites the Central African Republic under Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa as an example of such an extreme case. Crowned in a garrish ceremony attended by many world leaders in the mid-70s, Bokassa was forced to abdicate his throne because of widespread accusations that he had personally murdered, and later eaten, dozens of schoolchildren...
...Anne-Aymone is under attack for using inside sources to make a killing on the Paris stock market, adviser Michel Poniatowski is being investigated for obstructing justice, and two first cousins have been accused of following the Executive's lead in accepting diamonds from former Central African dictator Jean-Bedel Bokassa, French President Valerie Giscard d'Estaing nonetheless stands as perhaps the most secure of western leaders, facing a red carpet to reelection...
...last two issues, Le Canard charged that Giscard, both when he was Finance Minister and after he became President in 1974, had graciously accepted 50 carats in diamonds-the first 30 alone valued at $240,000-from Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the sadistic former "Emperor" of the Central African Republic...
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast--The Ivory Coast government yesterday granted asylum to Jean Bedel Bokassa, deposed ruler of the Central African Republic. Bokassa, ousted last Thursday in a bloodless coup, flew to the Ivory Coast after France denied him refuge from the new Central African Republican government...
PARIS--Forces of "democratic liberty" took over the Central African Empire yesterday after 14 years of rule by Jean-Bedel Bokassa. French troops flew in to help the new regime...