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...year 1960 may be the most important period in Africa's history," said Baptist Graham just before he took off last week on a preaching tour that will take him to 16 cities and nine countries-Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, Tanganyika, Kenya, Ruanda Urundi, Ethiopia (South Africa is not included because Billy Graham insists on unsegregated meetings, which are illegal in the land of apartheid). Continued Billy: "We believe God directed the launching of this undertaking at the opening of Africa's year of destiny. We hope to be able to make some contribution...
Evangelist Graham's safari began at Monrovia, capital of Liberia, where he was welcomed by Vice President William Tolbert, acting as "crusade chairman" in Liberia. Said President William V. S. Tubman : "We expect the souls of people here to be watered, refreshed and blessed...
...Tough & the Bible. In the past two years Nkrumah's jailings and deportations of members of the opposition have made the biggest headlines. But in Ghana a kind of opposition at least still does exist. Wily President William V. S. Tubman of Liberia chomps on cigars, quotes the Bible and has no opposition at all. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is an absolute monarch. Cold-eyed, shrewd President Sekou Toure of Guinea, Africa's youngest nation, is Marxist-trained, favors Marxist-length speeches (very long), runs his country through a single Marxist-style party...
...Africa, the toughest black leadership tends also to be the most capable. President Tubman has pulled Liberia out of a century of backwardness. Haile Selassie personally set up a constitution, decreed Parliament and Ethiopia's first elections. The way that Sekou Toure organized his country in five short years and under the very noses of the French was a masterpiece...
...clamor against the French holding the tests at all. The Communists, of course, were in full cry against the idea ("a plot to terrorize African peoples into renouncing the struggle for freedom," screamed Moscow Radio), but more important were the protests of nine independent African states meeting in Monrovia, Liberia, who voted unanimously to condemn the experiments. Finally breaking their long silence on their Sahara plans, the French told the African states that the tests would take place in a "desolate region totally uninhabited ... in the dead center of the Sahara about 2,750 kilometers (1,709 miles) from Monrovia...