Word: keita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last summer, when 6-ft. 3-in. Mali President Modibo Keita returned to his capital of Bamako from a month-long visit to the Soviet Union, he told dignitaries at the airport: "Look, Modibo is back. There has been no coup, as certain foreign sources predicted there would be. I tell you, there will never be a coup in Mali." Last week Keita, 53, was cruising down the Niger River on the presidential yacht, General Soumare. By the time he got back to Bamako, he was out of a job, the victim of a quick and bloodless coup organized...
...takeover, in contrast to the bungling inefficiency that has characterized Keita's eight years in power, went off with impressive efficiency. The evening before the troops moved, about 40 army officers gathered in a secluded villa on the capital's outskirts to draw up their plans. They were under pressure: there were rumors that many faced arrest by Keita's armed militia, his so-called Red Guards. After a heated debate, the officers formed a 14-man National Liberation Committee, and troops, half-tracks and Soviet-built T-34 tanks rolled out into Bamako's silent...
...significant industry, and there are no important mineral deposits. About 95% of the 4,700,000 Malians are subsistence farmers. Mali's exports (mostly cattle and cotton) are minuscule. Trade deficits have been running at an average $20 million annually, and rose to $38 million in 1966. Keita's struggle to impose a socialist economy met with a singular lack of success. Coupled with these problems had been Keita's steady movement toward political absolutism, culminating in the creation in 1967 of the "Committee for the Defense of the Revolution." In effect, the committee replaced the weak...
...leader, Moussa Traore, 32, an army lieutenant who graduated first in his class from France's Overseas Officers' School at Frejus some years ago. Under his direction, the National Liberation Committee has moved quickly to consolidate its rule. It ordered statues and portraits of the imposing Keita torn down, the Red Guard militia abolished. Free elections have been promised, and private enterprise has been invited into the country. Clearly, the new rulers of the former French colony were abandoning Keita's policy of increasing dependence on Communist China and the Soviet Union. In Paris, officials were something...
...Yugoslav serving a ten-year term on the penal island of Goli Otok in the Adriatic; as a member of the Nazarene sect he refuses to report for military service and handle objects intended for killing. There is also a "Prisoner of the Year." The 1966 selection is Koumandian Keita, a Guinean headmaster sentenced to ten years for criticizing President Sekou Toure's education policies...