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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Upper Volta, President Maurice Yaméogo filled his Cabinet with his cousins, lavished money on high living, mansions and travel abroad. When the money ran low, he cut the salaries of his 11,000 government employees-one-third of the nation's wage earners. The result was four days of rioting two months ago, which ended only when Lieut. Colonel Sangoule Lamizane deposed Yaméogo and rescinded the pay cuts. "France gives us money, and all we do is waste it," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Second Revolution | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...standard of living much above the bare minimums their populations had endured for years. Unable to do much for the people, the politicians unwisely did what they could for themselves. Dahomey's first President built a $3,000,000 palace; the Upper Volta's Yaméogo built himself a sumtuous country retreat with a swimming pool, while farmers still desperately seek water holes on the arid plains to keep their cattle from thirsting to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Soldiers on the March | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

...Upper Volta, Lieut. Colonel Sangoule Lamizane, 50, ousted President Maurice Yaméogo after four days of demonstrations in the capital city of Quagadougou against a proposed 20% cut in government salaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Soldiers on the March | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

...force to assume leadership. Demonstrators in Upper Volta actually carried signs asking the army to take over. As products of austere French military traditions, the army commanders abhorred frivolity and waste. "France gives us money, and all we do is waste it," said Colonel Lamizane after ousting Yaméogo. In the Central African Republic, Colonel Bokassa used almost exactly the same words as he instituted a "moral cleanup" campaign for government officials: no bars, dance halls, riding in taxis. Also forbidden: tom-tom playing during working hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Soldiers on the March | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

Little Losses. By any standard, the transitions to military rule were mild enough. In the C.A.R., it was cousin ousting cousin and putting up the ousted kin in his own house. In Upper Volta, former President Yaméogo praised the coup. "Contrary to what people may think," said he in a broadcast speech, "my ministers and I are the first to rejoice in the way things have been settled." In Dahomey, not a shot was fired, nor were more than a handful of politicians placed under arrest. The only deaths in the three military takeovers came in the C.A.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Soldiers on the March | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

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