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...federation might well have been larger, had it not beea for the opposition of another ambitious African ruler -Felix Houphouet-Boigny, strongman in the Ivory Coast, and the only African of ministerial rank in De Gaulle's government. Houphouet-Boigny is afraid that his Ivory Coast, the richest country in the area, might have to foot most of the bills. He not only kept the Ivory Coast out, but persuaded Niger to stay out, too. His lobbyists were less successful in the Voltaic Republic, though they had recently sent a truckload of wedding gifts to the emperor...
...months since he seized power in Baghdad, wiry Strongman Karim Kassem has been obsessed by one problem: how to escape domination by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. To fight off the Arab nationalists in his midst, Kassem all but handed control of the Baghdad mob to the Communists, did not even intervene when the Reds organized a stone-throwing reception for U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree (TIME, Dec. 29). Last week, for the first time, there were signs that Kassem might have come to realize that Moscow's embrace can be even more crushing than Cairo...
...chasm that split Gamal Abdel Nasser from the West more than two years ago in the Anglo-French invasion of Suez was papered over by money last week. The strongman of the Nile, needing written help to withstand the Communists in the Middle East, got set to make an economic settlement with the British. The U.S. has already agreed to sell him 200,000 tons of surplus wheat, and the French have signed a $5,000,000 barter deal with him. The British-Egyptian compromise was worked out by World Bank President Eugene Black, the discreet and yam-voiced international...
CUBA'S latest revolution was plotted in gunrunning missions off the Florida coast, in elegant Havana yacht clubs, in the man-trying mountains of eastern Cuba, and in the hushed offices of leading Havana lawyers. The men who made the revolt shared a common hatred of Strongman Batista, but had notably varied backgrounds...
...poetry-writing wholesale grocer, Rómulo Betancourt was born February 22, 1908 in the village of Guatire, 25 miles from Caracas. In 1928, during his third year of law school, he took part in a series of demonstrations against Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. The grim strongman put the fiery student in ball-and-chain, later hounded him into exile in Colombia...