Word: keita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then began one of the most bizarre incidents in the U.N.'s often bizarre history. Moussa L. Keita of Mali, president during April of the 15-nation council, simply refused to call a meeting. In league with other Black African nations opposed to Ian Smith, Keita was trying to buy time, and to draw up some stiffer amendments calling for total mandatory sanctions that would be enforced mainly by the British. Growing more impatient by the hour, U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg met with British Representative Lord Caradon and delegates from nine other member nations, and the group staged...
...Wilson government demonstrated both restraint and forcefulness during the crisis--especially in dealing with Security Council President Moussa L. Keita of Mali when he inexcusably delayed the meeting. But it should be prepared to take broader measures if the existing sanctions do not bring Smith to his knees. Thirty thousand gallons of oil have flowed daily from South Africa during the past two months, and there is good reason to question the effectiveness of the sanctions in other areas as well...
Last week four of the noisiest radicals - Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Sekou Toure of Guinea, Algeria's Ben Bella and Mali's Modibo Keita-met in the dusty West African capital of Bamako for an emergency conference to see what could be done. Answer: not much...
...meeting at all. Ben Bella arrived late-only half an hour before Sékou Touré had to leave. And Nkrumah had been in Bamako less than five hours when he suddenly decided he had urgent business elsewhere and flew home. That left only Ben Bella and Keita, who could not leave because he was the host. They talked alone for two hours, and one of their subjects, presumably, was Mali's Tuareg nomads, who, with Ben Bella's support, recently staged an abortive rebellion against Keita. Next day, the two flew down to Conakry for another...
Last week a Keita ultimatum demanding that the Iforas Tuaregs turn in their weapons expired with no response. "This is their last chance," roared the President. "All rebels found carrying arms will be shot immediately." But Keita's harsh threat sounded as empty as the echoing wastes of the Iforas. Merely keeping the 800-mile supply line open from Mali's capital city of Bamako to the ruggedly desolate Iforas hills has brought Keita's tottering treasury close to collapse...