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...concern, which the U.S, shares with Britain and Italy, is that an economic group dominated by the West Germans would end up with conservative fiscal and monetary policies that would severely limit economic growth. Another fear is that the ECU, once established, would invite speculators and governments from Togo to Turkey to dump dollars for the ECU currencies, thus bringing more downward pressure on the dollar. Economist Robert Triffin, a U.S. monetary expert who has long championed a European currency, believes that it would help rather than hurt the dollar's stability in the long run. The final form...
...Force C-141 StarLifters began to arrive in Lubumbashi, the capital of Shaba. The planes brought in 100 tons of supplies ranging from ammunition to ambulances. They also carried 1,500 Moroccan troops, who are soon to be joined by another 500 soldiers from Senegal, Gabon and Togo. Replacing French Foreign Legionnaires, the African force will help the faltering government of President Mobutu Sese Seko maintain the peace...
...Carr era ended at a tense emergency meeting in Lome, the sweltering capital of Togo. Though the All Africa Conference's board issued statements defending Carr, key churchmen finally concluded that he had brought the young ecumenical organization to the brink of disaster. The board put Carr on leave until May 1979, when his term officially expires. This week Carr becomes a research fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs, and in the next academic year a visiting lecturer at Harvard Divinity School. His interim replacement: Egyptian Coptic Layman Sarwat G. Shehata, 39, a quiet management expert...
...Lome, Togo--Back of the wide yellow beach and its palm trees that are your first impression, there are the woven-bamboo shacks that surround every city I saw in Africa. The huts are fenced-off into compounds with communal cooking and eating areas...
...Convention (named for Togo's capital city, where the accord was signed) put into effect earlier this year by the European Economic Community and 46 nations, mostly former European colonies in Africa, covering twelve commodities. When export revenues fall below a reference point, the EEC makes compensating cash payments to commodity producers. When incomes rise above the reference point, the producers must reimburse...