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...quarter-century, was the proudest moment of his life. It also represented a high point for both Guinea and Touré, a son of a poor farmer who became the West African nation's first and only ruler. When Touré died last week at 62 in a Cleveland hospital, to which he had been rushed for treatment of a worsening heart condition, he left behind a record of thoroughgoing repression, oppression and tyranny that began to abate only a few years ago. Lamented France's Le Monde: "If ever there was a revolution that went astray...
Touré was making plans for the 20th anniversary meeting of the Organization of African Unity, to be held in Conakry next month, when he was flown to the Cleveland Clinic Hospital last week. He died on the operating table after undergoing 5½ hours of surgery for a heart condition. Reactions to his death understandably differed. Zimbabwe Prime Minister Robert Mugabe called Toure a "true patriot" and a "loss to the entire African continent." Elsewhere, in the nearby Ivory Coast, Guinea's jubilant exiles downed champagne...
DIED. Ahmed Sékou Touré, 62, President of Guinea; during emergency heart surgery; in Cleveland (see WORLD...
...Boston Celtics nailed down the best record of the 1983-84 National Basketball Association (NBA) season with a 113-94 romp over the Cleveland Cavaliers last night...
Boston 113, Cleveland...