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Until recently. President Leopold Senghor and Premier Mamadou Dia of peanut-producing Senegal were as close as two nuts in a pod. Both worked feverishly to win Senegal's independence from France in 1960, and they have shared the struggle to make the hot little West African nation a going concern. Then, six months ago, Dia, back from a trip to Moscow, took a sharp left turn in his official policies. Moderate President Senghor disagreed violently with Dia's new line. Last week, in a showdown in the sunny capital of Dakar, Senghor shucked his old friend...
Marriage Revealed. Mamadou Dia.49, Premier of the Republic of Senegal and Vice President of the Federation of Mali; and Salaam Murad, 33, a Lebanese white schoolteacher; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beirut on June 15 in a proxy wedding (Dia's representative: Senegalese Finance Minister Mas Bokani...
...figure of Nkrumah no longer looms so large as it did, for Nkrumah's highhanded suppression of those who oppose him has offended other leaders. "Ghanocracy," snorts Premier Mamadou Dia of Senegal, "does not interest us." And Premier Sylvanus Olympio of Togoland, on Ghana's border, wants to delay his own country's independence until Nigeria gets its in 1960, on the simple theory that Nigeria's 34.7 million people would never bow to Nkrumah...
When the war broke out, Mamadou Kane became an officer of French Senegalese troops. After the defeat of 1940, he donned his royal robes again. The Germans were impressed. They gave him an office in the Hotel Scribe, winked when the Prince of Zombie became a prince of black marketeers...
This month Mamadou Kane, accused of collaboration with the enemy, stood before a Paris court of justice. For two hours he wept, beat his breast, gestured royally, proclaimed his innocence like a prophet...