Word: dacko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Central African Republic, beset by everything from Chinese subversion to ministerial embezzlement to a staggering civil service payroll of 50,000 (for a population of 1.4 million), President David Dacko was overthrown by Colonel Jean-Bedel Bokassa, his cousin, who announced that he had acted "to head off two other coups, one against me and one against President Dacko...
...Central African Republic, Colonel Jean-Bedel Bokassa, 44, over threw President David Dacko, 35, the country's only President since independence...
Political parties: 1. Voters: 65%. Moderate President David Dacko, former schoolteacher who did not finish high school, is slowly trying to build centrally administered state...