Word: monrovia
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...grouping, a kind of miniature African United Nations first planned in Monrovia a year ago, joins most of the former French territories with the prominent English-speaking lands (Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone) of Western Africa...
...Monrovia, Liberia...
Died. Charles Dunbar Burgess King, 86, President of Liberia from 1920 to 1930, who resigned under fire when slave-running operations were uncovered in the African republic founded by freed U.S. slaves; after a long illness; in Monrovia...
...respect as a leader who recognizes that shrill demagoguery is no solution to Africa's ills. Months ago he conceived the idea of a conference of all African leaders, with the modest aim of soberly exploring their common problems. As it turned out, the delegates who came to Monrovia represent a majority of independent Africans -some 95 million of free Africa's 186 million citizens. Significantly absent were the five obstreperous Casablanca powers: the U.A.R., Morocco, Guinea, Ghana and Mali (the Congo and South Africa were not invited). Originally, Guinea's Sekou Toure and Mali...
...wish to engage in war; we do not wish to have the enmity of any group. But we know how to choose our friends: those who will not impair our liberty." Houphouet-Boigny would ultimately like to see the same sort of solidarity emerge from the Monrovia nations. "Our hope is that Africa will become a huge Switzerland...