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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...
...Blow to Progress." Thus last week died the man who was ruler of a postage-stamp-sized republic (75 by 340 miles) on the sweltering West African coast. Chief architect of Togo's 1960 independence from French control, London-educated Olympio practiced stern austerity at home, rejected demagoguery, and sided openly with the West. President Kennedy, whom Olympio visited in Washington last March, mourned his death as "a blow to the progress of stable government in Africa...
...needed cash to balance the 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...
...TOGO (F.) Pop.: 1,440,000. Size: 19,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 15%. School attendance: 42%. College graduates: More than 100. Christians: 25%. Witchcraft, savage ritual still prevalent...
Exports: Cocoa, cotton, coffee. Per capita income: $73. U.S. aid (1961 ): $1,400,000. Needs foreign aid to develop phosphate industry. Main trade ties with France. Ghana's claims to Togo are threat to stabilitv...