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Exports: Peanuts. Per capita income: $177. U.S. aid (1961): $3,600,000. Senegal has little save glittering capital city of Dakar. Bordering Marxist Mali and Guinea, nation faces long-term Communist threat...
...Archbishop of Lome, in Togo. Ten days before, the Most Rev. Raymond Tchidimbo. 42, in a similar ceremony, was elevated to the see of Conakry in Guinea. Earlier. Hyacinthe Thiandoum. 41, became Archbishop of Dakar in Senegal and Luc Sangare, 36, was named to the diocese of Bamako in Mali. The four consecrations completed something of an ecclesiastical revolution, for all four men are sons of West African tribes, and now black bishops preside over nine dioceses in West Africa...
...Have Bananas. Most of the proposed customs unions lack the homogeneity of the European Six; often their members belong to different currency blocs and lack common boundaries. The members of the "Casablanca bloc" that met last week in Cairo-Egypt. Morocco, Algeria, Ghana, Guinea and Mali-found that transportation among them is so primitive that Ghana still finds it easier to import cotton from Europe than from Egypt. Hoping to change this, the Casablanca powers agreed to expand their shipping, create an airline cooperative, and start a joint payments union. But, like nearly all the little common markets, the Casablanca...
...swing through West Africa. Artful Anastas got a coolly correct reception in Guinea, where he tried to mend some fences; the Soviet ambassador, since expelled, had stirred up demonstrations against President Sekou Toure, a Marxist but apparently not enough of one for Moscow. In Red-leaning Mali and Ghana, Mikoyan was treated like an honorary African, grinned while a provincial street was named after...
...Mali...