Word: houphouet
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...African nation boasts a more elegant capital or a more mellifluously named ruler than the Ivory Coast. President Félix Houphouet-Boigny dwells in a $12 million palace resplendent with 52 types of marble and an air-conditioned wine cellar. The French government spends $50 million a year in aid on its former colony in order to make Abidjan a showcase of French influence - but it remains a showcase for much else besides. At a hastily called meeting of foreign diplomats and government officials, the President last week revealed that he had come within a fork's length...
...poison in the bottles he brandished had been intended for his food, Houphouet reported, just in case the hexed coffins did not work. But the word got out (witchmen are notorious gossips), and the perpetrator had already gone to his reward. He was Ernest Boka, 36, until two weeks ago president of the Ivory Coast's Supreme Court and the third man in line of succession behind Houphouet. Boka had confessed, Houphouet claimed, and then hanged himself by his pajama trousers in the prison shower. So does justice catch up with the juju man, Houphouet warned...
...nation's youth busy and provide Nyerere with a body of troops that see things through TANU's -and therefore his-eyes. If political awareness must come to his army, he would rather it be his brand of aware ness. The Ivory Coast's President Felix Houphouet-Boigny has perhaps the easiest solution to the problem: since the Ivoriens have no enemies to fight, he has simply taken their guns away. Even the cops in Abidjan carry nothing more deadly than cigarettes and money in their holsters...
...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...