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Exports: Cocoa, palm products, peanuts. Per capita income: $88. U.S. aid (1961): $13,200,000. Moderate Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa holds together three disparate regions and 250 tribes that lack a truly national outlook. G.N.P. has soared 50% (to $3 billion) in decade...
Exports: Iron ore, palm kernels, diamonds, cocoa, coffee. Per capita income: $70. U.S. aid (1961): $600,000. Margai favors moderate African bloc, thwarted Red infiltration. Diamond boom brought prosperity. Nation needs foreign capital to raise living standards...
...Exports: Palm products, peanuts. Per capita income: $40. U.S. aid (1961): $3,100,000. Heavily reliant on France, which is financing $20 million development program. Shaky government flirts with leftist Mali and Red Chinese but is antiCommunist...
Exports: Timber, palm oil, peanuts. Per capita income: $40. U.S. aid (1961): $100,000. High-deficit agricultural economy subsidized from France, but projected hydroelectric and aluminum complex is planned...
Exports: Normally cobalt, copper, diamonds, palm oil, bananas. Per capita income: $90. U.S. aid (1961): $13.1 million. U.N. force defeated Communist efforts to infiltrate Congo, but has failed to end copper-rich Katanga's secession after two years. Even if once-prosperous country is reunited, it will take years to create a nation...