Word: cameroun
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...gate of a Maryland amusement park. Last month, Dr. William Fitzjohn, charge d'affaires of newly emerging Sierra Leone, was snubbed out of another Howard Johnson restaurant, this one in Hagerstown, Md. In recent weeks, according to U.S. State Department reports, diplomatic staffers from Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Liberia, Cameroun and Ethiopia have suffered indignities of various sorts because of the color of their skin...
...steamy, sleepy Yaounde, little jungle capital of Cameroun, leaders of a dozen new nations* of former French Africa conferred for two days, then proclaimed themselves a new economic unit, to be known as the Afro-Malagasy Economic Union. The new union will have a common customs pact, a common airline (Air Afrique) and closely linked foreign policies. Committees are already at work on vague plans for a joint diplomatic corps to represent them all abroad (but not at the U.N., where each will have its delegation) and for a coordinated military defense system. They will all continue their loose ties...
...Senegal, Ivory Coast, Congo Republic, Chad, Gabon, Dahomey, Central African Republic, Upper Volta, Mauritania, Niger, Cameroun, Malagasy Republic (the former Madagascar...
...rushing rice, corn, dried milk and other foodstuffs from U.S. surplus stocks to help feed 300,000 homeless Baluba tribesmen starving in remote Kasai province. Orders crackled from U.S. Air Force European headquarters in Wiesbaden, and an urgent airlift headed south. U.S. planes stopped at Nairobi, Salisbury and the Cameroun city of Garoua, picked up food pledged by other governments. On the way back, the planes would help haul out the Moroccan, U.A.R. and Guinean troops that the dissident politicians of Africa had ordered home...
...simplest designs caused headaches. In Chad, the Assembly wrangled for two days, and the 85 Deputies suggested 85 separate flags. In making its final choice, the government was careful to eliminate green, which for many Africans symbolizes Islam but in Chad is the color of the opposition party. Cameroun happily prepared to embellish its flag with a shrimp, since the country's name derives from the Portuguese word for shrimp, camarāo. Western observers hastily advised that world reaction might be derisive, and Cameroun settled for a prosaic tricolor...