Word: houphouet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party, not all the delegates to Africa's first "summit conference" last week were pals. Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba loathes Ghana's power-seeking Kwame Nkrumah who is jealous of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser who despises the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny who in turn is contemptuous of Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Senghor...
...Hotel, where a single with bath can be had for $50 a day, is still the town's toniest hangout; over the past several years, its guests have ranged from high royalty and heads of state (Belgium's Leopold III and son Baudouin, President Félix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, France's Pierre Mendés-France, Italy's Umberto, the Princesses Brigitta of Sweden and Alexandra of Britain) to plain old actors and artists (Joan Crawford, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Armstrong, Ava Gardner, Melina Mercouri, Lionel Hampton and Pablo Casals...
During a state visit last week, the Ivory Coast's President Félix Houphouet-Boigny, whom Touré once called a "colonialist puppet." got red-carpet treatment, including an honor guard of paratroopers dressed in improbable raspberry-colored silk uniforms with floral patterns. Before Houphouet-Boigny left for home, a pretty Guinean girl serenaded him with a song in the Malinké dialect that, though it no doubt loses something in translation, told of her yearning...
Political parties: 1. Voters: 92%. Benevolent and anti-Communist Dictator Felix Houphouet-Boigny leads moderate Brazzaville bloc of twelve former French territories. Though unified by Houphouet, villagers have little interest in self-government...
Exports: Coffee, cocoa, bananas, timber. Per capita income: $160. U.S. aid (1961): $2,100,000. Ex-French Africa's strongest economy, world's third largest coffee producer. Houphouet is increasingly irked by U.S. aid to left-leaning neighbor, Ghana...