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...Sylvanus Olympio, 60, President of Togo, the nightmare began shortly after midnight. Disturbed by strange sounds in his comfortable house in the capital city of Lomé, Olympio grabbed a pistol and went to the head of the stairs. There, to his consternation, was a crowd of mutinous soldiers crowding the floor below. Barefoot, clad in shorts and sport shirt, Olympio leaped through a window onto the soft, sandy earth of his garden...
...budget, and wanted money from Germany, which used to run the place as a colony before World War I. When the Germans refused, the Camerounians held them at the airport for several hours before allowing them to go home. Other African leaders, such as Togo's President Sylvanus Olympic, come to Bonn themselves...
Political parties: 3. Voters: 42%. Government still based on tribalism. President Sylvanus Olympic avowedly neutralist but warm friend of West, faces resistance from Ghana-backed northern tribes...
Political parties: 3. Voters: 42%. Government still based on tribalism. President Sylvanus Olympic avowedly neutralist but warm friend of West, faces resistance from Ghana-backed northern tribes...
...distant descendant of Thayer Founder General Sylvanus Thayer, who also founded Dartmouth's Thayer Engineering School and served as a superintendent of West Point...