Word: dias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three months ago, in a bitter end to a beautiful friendship, Poet-President Leopold Senghor of peanut-growing Senegal, on the West African coast, booted out of office his old friend, Premier Mamadou Dia, after Dia had turned on Senghor in an attempted coup. Last week, in a referendum run off while Dia languished behind the barbed wire of a military camp outside Dakar awaiting trial for treason, the 56-year-old Senghor legalized his position as Senegal's strongman...
...shore leaves, ordering units of its own fleet to sea. There was an uneasy stir in foreign ministries in Paris and Rio de Janeiro; among Brazilians there was talk of breaking diplomatic relations, even of asking the U.S. to invoke the Monroe Doctrine. Headlined Rio's O Dia: WAR IS IMMINENT...
Until recently. President Leopold Senghor and Premier Mamadou Dia of peanut-producing Senegal were as close as two nuts in a pod. Both worked feverishly to win Senegal's independence from France in 1960, and they have shared the struggle to make the hot little West African nation a going concern. Then, six months ago, Dia, back from a trip to Moscow, took a sharp left turn in his official policies. Moderate President Senghor disagreed violently with Dia's new line. Last week, in a showdown in the sunny capital of Dakar, Senghor shucked his old friend...
...case of political fast-draw. Without warning, a no-confidence resolution designed to force Dia's resignation was produced in the Senghor-controlled Parliament. At the news, Dia sent rifle-carrying police into the chamber, ordered it dissolved. But Senghor called in his own band of paratroops; they promptly surrounded Dia in his administration building. When the frantic Premier attempted to speak through a loudspeaker, a pro-Senghor mob drowned him out by playing thundering tomtom records, full-blast. At last, Dia surrendered, and was led away to captivity...
Foreign Affairs not only observes world events but frequently anticipates and even shapes them. U.S. Presidential Candidate Kennedy's interest in Dean Rusk was first whetted by a 1960 article, ''The President''; after reading "The Broken Dia logue with Japan'' in a later issue that same year. President Kennedy was moved to appoint its author, Edwin 0. Reischauer, U.S. Ambassador to Japan...