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...celebrate the anniversary than with another coup? So Army Chief of Staff Etienne Guassinghe Eyadéma, 34, did just that. In a swift and bloodless takeover, he ousted President Nicholas Grunitzky, suspended the constitution and the National Assembly, and banned all political parties. Coup No. 2 for tiny Togo (pop. 1,617,000) was the seventh military takeover in a year for Black Africa...
...portly, phlegmatic mulatto (his father was German) who spent most of his time taking health cures in France. Last November he had to hurry back from France to head off an abortive coup by followers of Olympic, who accused him of indecision and too close a tie with Togo's former colonial masters in France. When Eyadéma's men moved last week, Grunitzky urgently telephoned Paris and asked if the military treaty he had made with France covered the sending of troops for his own personal protection. At 2 a.m., after a French functionary had relayed...
...Voice newscasts. Captured Viet Cong posters warn direly that "listening to the Voice of America is like letting a thief in your house who will steal your soul." Graduating Moscow high school students danced until dawn to VOA music in Red Square last spring. In the forests of Togo, one Christian Agbeze spends three hours a day-one hour down a mountain and two hours up-walking to the nearest village with a radio so that he can catch Voice broadcasts. Never one to let a listener down, VOA is sending him his own transistor...
...French are gone from Southeast Asia, but there's a lingering trace of Talleyrand in Vu Van Thai, South Vietnam's ambassador to the U.S. Just as Talleyrand spent the Terror safely secluded in the United States, so did Thai work as a U.N. staff member in Togo, during the seven coups and dozen reshuffles since the fall of Diem. Thai's return suggests that he has mastered Talleyrand's chameleon-like ability to shift positions and survive...
...doctrines about "African socialism." It all sound ed splendid enough, and his fellow Africans were impressed at first. Later, when they found his agents bent on overthrowing their regimes, other African leaders lost their enthusiasm for the freedom pioneer. He was strongly suspected of instigating the 1963 assassination of Togo's President Sylvanus Olympic; last year 14 French-speaking states joined together in a formal denunciation of his eternal plotting...