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Thus ended, for the moment anyway, a bow-and-arrow rebellion that had nettled London and Paris during eight weeks of fruitless negotiations with Rebel Leader Jimmy Stevens,* a Eurasian and former bulldozer driver who declared the island independent of the New Hebrides central government of Chief Minister Walter Lini...
London and Paris were thus prompted to mount the first joint Franco-British military effort since the Suez crisis of 1956. Warned of the troops' imminent arrival, Stevens declared that they were coming at his request. At week's end, the French said that the Central Government had...
*Stevens' name originated with a grandfather who was a Scottish sea captain.
In March serious rioting broke out in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, when the government announced a hike in gasoline prices from $2.50 to $3 per gal. The rioting was reminiscent of the savage protests that erupted in Morovia last year after Tolbert increased the price of rice. Stevens...
As titular head of the O.A.U. until next July's meeting in Nairobi, Stevens is expected to lead the battle for economic sanctions against South Africa. But his government has tight links with the apartheid regime; 49% of the national diamond corporation is owned by an offshoot of South...