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Coping with a single chief of state is enough to make protocol officials nervous. Thus there was more than a little Israeli concern last week when four self-styled "Messengers of Peace"-Senegal's Poet-President Léopold Senghor, Cameroun's President Ahmadou Ahidjo, Nigeria's Chief of State Yakubu Gowon, and the Zaire Republic's President Joseph Mobutu-flew almost simultaneously into Lod International Airport outside Tel Aviv. They had been dispatched by the Organization of African Unity to help bring peace between Arabs and Israelis "by means of a dialogue," as Senghor...
...Israel to withdraw from all the occupied territories and appointed a committee of ten "wise men" to study the Egyptian-Israeli conflict and return with recommendations. The ten, in turn, dispatched the four-man mission on the first incursion of African diplomacy into the tangled Middle East. On arrival, Senghor spoke of the Africans, Arabs and Jews as "a trilogy of suffering peoples," and added: "We have a message of humanity to transmit to the world...
...four business sessions with the Prime Minister and her advisers, the Africans probed the basic issues of the conflict. "Most of the countries of black Africa maintain friendly relations with Israel and the Arab states," said Senghor. "When you have friends who are fighting each other, it is incumbent upon you to build bridges between them and to pacify them. I believe that the Africans have a better chance to succeed in this than the Americans or the Russians...
Helen Louise Gardner, Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford University known for her studies of the Metaphysical poets, received the degree of Doctor of Letters, as did Paton and Senghor...
...Senghor has been President of Senegal since its inception in 1960; since 1968, he has also served as Minister of Defense. He has published five volumes of verse in French and is the recipient of the Dag Hammarskjold Prize for his writing...