Word: volta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House last week came the first state visitor since President Johnson's inauguration. He was little (5 ft. 6 in.) Maurice Yameogo, President of the little (105,900 sq. mi.), new nation of Upper Volta. Yameogo, 43, came to Washington a fan of Abraham Lincoln; he left a fan of Lyndon Baines Johnson...
Yameogo's landlocked West African country, one of the smallest and poorest of Africa's new nations, has about 4,500,000 inhabitants, whose yearly per capita income is only $50. Once part of French West Africa, Upper Volta gained its independence in 1960 and elected Yameogo, then 38, its first President. A staunch U.S. ally in the presence of such powerful anti-U.S. neighbors as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Yameogo did not come seeking more U.S. aid (Upper Volta gets about $1,000,000 a year), simply wanted to reassure Johnson that Upper Volta...
...reflected an older world; only four African nations were represented. Now, with the relentless recessional of the colonial powers, new African nations began sprouting almost faster than they could be counted. The present roster of 114 members includes 36 Africans. From Tanzania and Zambia, from Malawi and Upper Volta, from places no one had heard of before, came men with gaudy robes, beaded headdresses, and Oxford or Sorbonne accents-most of them young and eager, all of them defensive, few of them experienced in even the lowest levels of diplomacy...
...Moses. Other businessmen often wonder why Kaiser is deeply committed in such unpredictable areas as Latin America (where Kaiser-Willys is the continent's biggest auto producer), or India (where Kaiser operates the country's largest aluminum plant), or Ghana (where Kaiser is building the $196 million Volta Dam and an aluminum plant that will be served by it). To such questioning, Edgar gives a disarming answer: "How are you ever going to give these people the opportunity to know us unless you work with them...
...cardinals will raise the Sacred College to 103, highest total in history, and contribute further to the internationalization begun by Pius XII. The red hats will be bestowed on men from 21 countries, including Ceylon, Brazil, Upper Volta, Algeria, and the Union of South Africa. Only six of the appointments went to Italy, whose representation in the enlarged college will be reduced to an alltime...