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...night before, by local belief, demons of death stalked the village of Sotouboua (pop. 500) in northern Togo. Streets were deserted, and only the throb of a tom-tom broke the still ness. Next day the men of the village sallied forth to perform the ritual that is supposed to frighten demons away. Some wore fluttery feather headdresses and grotesque carved masks; others chewed the bark of a native bush until the drool stained their chins a deep orange color. Several of them gripped snakes and rats between their teeth...
...course, also rammed into a mass of people. The tow cable between the trucks acted as a scythe, severing bodies through the middle. More than 100 dancers and onlookers died immediately, including James Driscoll, 20, a Peace Corps volunteer from Buffalo, N.Y., who had already served 16 months in Togo and had signed up for a second tour of duty. At least 300 people were injured, including four Peace Corps girls. The truck drivers ran away, but were later arrested...
Bitter Sugar. Hit hardest are the producers of cocoa, which dropped 45% this year to a postwar low of 120 a Ib. in mid-July, and has rebounded only 10 since then. Brazil, Cameroon, Togo and the Ivory Coast have been hurt, and Nigeria is paying its cocoa growers partly with promissory notes instead of money. Worst battered is Ghana, where cocoa produces 60% of the national income. Because of the price drop and Dictator Kwame Nkrumah's overly ambitious development schemes, the country is struggling with the severest economic crisis in its eight-year history. Factories in Accra...
...capacity of an $85 million ammonia-plant complex in Trinidad, has just opened an $8,000,000 phosphate plant in Bayonne, France, which it will supply from one of the world's richest rock-phosphate mines, jointly owned by Grace and French interests in the African Republic of Togo. In the U.S., Grace is completing a factory near Buffalo for reprocessing nuclear fuel. In the Midwest, it is opening 200 Grace Green-towns, rural centers at which farmers can get advice and buy Grace fertilizers, insecticides and weed-killers...
...majority of black Africa's new nations have adopted one-party systems-by no means all as representative as Kenya's. The late President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympic, insisted that "the test of a democratic regime in Africa might not be the actual presence of a second party, so much as whether the regime tolerated individualists." This is not necessarily doublethink. The one-party system is an effort to come to terms with an African tradition of tribal consensus in which the elders made universally accepted decisions. In such a context the concept of a "loyal opposition...