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Beginning a recent visit to the Ivory Coast, Congo President Joseph Mobutu raised his hosts' eyebrows by shrugging that he would not believe in President Houphouët-Boigny's "economic miracle" until he personally saw proof of it. A few days of touring the Ivory Coast were enough to convince Mobutu. "Now that I've visited Houphouët and his country," he said, "I wonder which of us is the real revolutionary...
...served as his country's President from 1948 to 1952, becoming Ecuador's first chief of state in modern history to keep the army out of the palace. He also won a wide reputation as a shrewd internationalist while serving as a U.N. troubleshooter in Lebanon, the Congo and Cyprus and heading the hard-working United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America. What Latin America needs most, Plaza once said, is a "strong, dynamic, creative" OAS. Now he has the chance to see if he can create just that...
...crisscrossed the erstwhile White Man's Grave, dropping in on the Ivory Coast, Liberia, Ghana, the Congo, Zambia and Ethiopa-with Somalia, Kenya and Tunisia also on the itinerary-not even the fabled spirit of WAWA could put Humphrey down. WAWA, short for West Africa Wins Again, is invoked by exasperated voyagers as the malefic author of all sub-Saharan hang-ups, and it struck frequently. Hubert smilingly brushed it aside...
...more help to Africa peppered the Vice President's public speeches and talks with African leaders. There were also some goodies: news of a $36.5 million loan for a dam in the Ivory Coast, $12 million worth of Food for Peace for Ghana, Peace Corps volunteers for the Congo, and help with a road in Zambia, as well as engraved silver bowls for heads of state and tie clips or cufflinks for lesser African functionaries. And everywhere there were African hands eager to be shaken...