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Bokassa's malign authority has seldom been challenged since he deposed his cousin, David Dacko, in a New Year's military coup in 1966. One of his first official acts was to abolish Parliament, the constitution and elections. Today Bokassa is virtually a one-man government. He is not only life President, commander in chief of the armed forces and president of the only political party but, as a result of his periodic Cabinet shuffles, the holder of ten ministerial portfolios, ranging from Defense to Information to Mines. From his subjects he demands ostentatious displays of devotion...
...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...