Word: gabon
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...last week, U.S. Air Force C-141 StarLifters began to arrive in Lubumbashi, the capital of Shaba. The planes brought in 100 tons of supplies ranging from ammunition to ambulances. They also carried 1,500 Moroccan troops, who are soon to be joined by another 500 soldiers from Senegal, Gabon and Togo. Replacing French Foreign Legionnaires, the African force will help the faltering government of President Mobutu Sese Seko maintain the peace...
...front." By that time the front had slipped back across the Angolan border, but no matter. The hero of the hour was President Giscard, who was broadly cheered when he declared, "Africa for the Africans. Everything must be done to withdraw the continent from the rivalries of political blocs." Gabon's President Albert-Bernard (Omar) Bongo, currently head of the Organization of African Unity, declared that Giscard deserved the Nobel Prize for his Africa policy. Bongo also proposed the creation of an all-Africa security organization to preserve the continent from the evils of "assassination, genocide and massacre." The delegates...
...reflected a feeling of uneasiness about the growing French military role in Africa. France now has the second largest external force on the continent-after the Cubans. In addition to the legionnaires in Shaba, Paris has 7,000 troops garrisoned in such former possessions as the Ivory Coast, Senegal, Gabon and Djibouti. French forces also serve with the United Nations in Lebanon and twice recently-in Mauritania and Chad-have come to the assistance of governments facing intense guerrilla pressure. The increasingly visible presence of Giscard's troops has earned them the unflattering sobriquet "the French Cubans" and raised...
West Germany and France would also suffer a serious, if lesser, loss of trade. But dozens of smaller countries closer to South Africa would also be affected. Gabon, for instance, buys meat from South Africa; Zambia buys everything from mining equipment to canned goods. Alternative markets are distant-and thus more expensive. At least four U.N. members -Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland and Mozambique-are heavily dependent on neighboring South Africa not only for trade but for communication...
...gourmet meals were prepared by an imported battalion of chefs (one from Maxim's in Paris). The estimated price tag for the extravaganza (including the construction of a six-lane highway, a new presidential palace and the conference-theater complex) was $800 million. That is nearly 75% of Gabon's budget for 1977, in a country whose per capita gross domestic product is $2,800 -the highest in black Africa...