Word: cameroun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...than trebled the trade of its five members and set their economies to humming. LAFTA-the Latin American Free Trade Area-is finally beginning to move, and Britain is pushing its West Indian territories toward an economic federation as the price of freedom. The Central African Republic, Chad and Cameroun have formed a small common market...
Albania gets a black mark for staging show trials of political opponents in the worst Stalinist tradition. Cameroun is condemned for banning opposition parties. Portugal is reprimanded for censoring its press. U.S. segregationists are denounced for flouting the U.S. Constitution. With Olympian impartiality, the quarterly Bulletin of the International Commission of Jurists attacks violations of human rights wherever it finds them...
Recently an Israeli was surprised to see two Africans conversing in Hebrew, but the explanation was logical. "He's from French-speaking Cameroun and I'm from Liberia," said one of the pair...
...often, despite a government's best efforts, jobs are simply not to be found. In the Cameroun port town of Douala, shop and office windows are festooned with signs reading "No help needed." Secondary-school graduates are willing to work three months without pay for a chance at a job. Young men as diligent as that will eventually get ahead-even if they have to storm the presidential palace, burn a minister's Mercedes or join the Union des Populations Camerounaises-a rebel group that has conducted the longest, bloodiest rebellion in Africa, a seven-year war that...