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...Trevor Berbick; in Las Vegas. Fighting legend and former Golden Gloves lightweight champion, Futch won attention when he threw in the towel for Smokin' Joe in the 1975 "Thrilla' in Manila" bout against Muhammad Ali. DIED. ALEXANDRE BYIDI-AWALA, 69, one of Africa's best-known authors; in Douala, Cameroon. Under the nom de plume Mongo Beti, he wrote novels and essays denouncing colonization and its effects on African societies. Beti's most popular work, The Poor Christ of Bomba, was published in 1956. DIED. NIE MINZHI, 71, longtime activist and founder in 1998 of the outlawed China Democracy Party...
...often, despite a government's best efforts, jobs are simply not to be found. In the Cameroun port town of Douala, shop and office windows are festooned with signs reading "No help needed." Secondary-school graduates are willing to work three months without pay for a chance at a job. Young men as diligent as that will eventually get ahead-even if they have to storm the presidential palace, burn a minister's Mercedes or join the Union des Populations Camerounaises-a rebel group that has conducted the longest, bloodiest rebellion in Africa, a seven-year war that...
...morning of the first day of independence, terrorists killed five people in the capital of Yaounde, and the foreign dignitaries who streamed in by air at Douala the day before could see the ruins of the control tower ransacked by another insurgent gang. In six months of struggle 22 whites have died-more than were killed in a similar period during the Mau Mau war in Kenya-and 500 or more Africans...
...Master's Voice. In Paris, Prince Alexandra Douala-Manga-Bell, Deputy from the Cameroons, apologized to the National Assembly for the uneven reading of his speech, explained that his secretary, whose handwriting is poor, had written...
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