Word: volta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something no independent state can do without. Even if national pride did not demand one, international protocol would, and both the British and French, who between them have launched most of the world's new nations, have seen to it that even such remote places as Upper Volta have something to play. "When independence is clearly on the way," says a British colonial officer, "it's usually up to the man on the spot to get them thinking about all the trappings and trimmings...
...ended the fat subsidies handed out to the 22 foreign revolutionary movements based in Algiers, ordered exiles to stop their political activities or leave the country. As if to prove his good intentions last week, the government newspaper El Moudja-hid published long front-page tributes to Upper Volta and the Ivory Coast, two of the African countries whose moderation was anathema to Ben Bella. One of Boumedienne's motives, of course, was to win support for the rescheduled Afro-Asia Summit Conference in Algiers, which was postponed two months ago when Ben Bella was toppled from power...
That struck a responsive chord, and Africa's former French dependencies played it repeatedly, with particular focus on the futile firebrand of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. Charging that Nkrumah has bankrupted his nation for his own political ends, Upper Volta's President Maurice Yameogo drew cheers with his acid observation that "in Ghana you have to stand in line nowadays to buy a box of matches." Should Nkrumah lead a Pan-African government? Chortled Yameogo: "How can he expect to extend that to the rest of Africa when he has lost the allegiance of his own people...
...agency called the National Commission to Encourage the Stabilization of Prices (CONEP) to get the operation going, placed it under the direction of Guilherme Borghoff, one of Campos' chief aides. To set an example, the government barred price increases by such state-owned enterprises as the Volta Redonda steelworks, whose prices soared 148% last year. Though businessmen yelped when Campos raised taxes and suggested that they trim profit margins, they lined up to take the price pledge with a minimum of arm twisting. Says Max Pearce, the boss of Willys-Overland do Brasil: "Who can take the risk...
...this year, Lyndon Johnson's foreign guests have included such dignitaries as Japan's Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, the Upper Volta's President Maurice Yaméogo, The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson (see cover story) and Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson, who annoyed the President during his U.S. visit by making a critical speech about the Johnson Administration's policy toward Viet...