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...stability of some of his peers is based on flimsier stuff. Gambia, which gained its freedom only last year, is too new and too tiny to give Prime Minister David Kairaba Jawara immediate cause for concern. French troops keep Gabon's President Léon Mba propped up in return for rights to his nation's uranium deposits. In Malawi, Prime Minister Hastings Banda is a demagogue who has banned everything except starvation, remains arrogant only because his army numbers only 800 men and is still commanded by British officers who are happy with the status...
Despite its handicaps, Gambia's future is not unduly bleak. Premier David Kairaba Jawara, 41, a British-educated veterinarian ("There's not a cow in Gambia that doesn't know me personally") who turned to politics five years ago, is a no-nonsense democrat and competent administrator. He has already signed agreements with Senegal for mutual defense, economic cooperation and sharing of diplomatic missions. Solidly pro-British, he has also talked London into underwriting his tiny economy to the tune of $10 million over the next three years-and the U.S. has given $125,000 for agricultural...
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