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...rainy Monrovia last week came 16 heads of government and four senior ministers from 20 independent African nations. The occasion: the African Heads of Government Conference, the largest African summit meeting ever held...
...largesse included a promise to help build a naval base for Ghana, plus a $5,000,000 credit for Nkrumah's industrial-expansion program. In little Togo, Tito laid the foundation stone for a hydroelectric plant on which his own Yugoslav engineers had done some work. Even in Monrovia, where Liberia's President William Tubman runs a staunchly pro-Western and capitalist little country, Tito offered a $3,000,000 loan for local projects, including a new slaughterhouse and cold-storage plant...
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...
...rising 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...
...population is actually attending school, and there is still such a national weakness for corruption that the President himself signs all government vouchers for more than $100. But more progress has been made in the last 15 years than in the entire 122 that went before. At one Monrovia polling place last week, an election official wore a red. white and blue paper eyeshade with the motto: "Don't gamble, play it safe, vote Tubman." The country's answer at week's end: more than 355,000 votes and a fourth term for Tubman, only 41 votes...