Word: houphouet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ruling Ivory Coast Democratic Party asked President Houphouet-Boigny to grant Bokassa asylum for "humanitarian reasons." Houphouet-Boigny agreed to this request in telephone calls from Bokassa's wife, Catherine, on behalf of her children...
...Faction. Senegal's Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, proposed that all black nationalist leaders be given equal OAU endorsement. But other delegates were influenced by Kaunda, whose backing of the Patriotic Front was a dramatic switch from his previous backing of all Rhodesian black nationalist movements. The Zambian leader concluded that OAU support for one faction would make a post-independence fight for political control less likely. He also endorsed Mugabe's argument that majority rule can be won only by armed conflict. Declared Kaunda: "A new Zimbabwe [Rhodesia] can only...
Implementing his policy of detente with Black Africa, Vorster flew secretly to the Ivory Coast in 1974 to meet with President Felix Houphouet-Boigny and Senegal's visiting President, Leopold Senghor. Later he made a covert plane trip to Liberia for talks with President William Tolbert. Last year he met publicly with Zambia's President Kaunda at Victoria Falls on the Rhodesia-Zambia border in what proved to be an unsuccessful effort to achieve a Rhodesian settlement...
...governments from recognizing the M.P.L.A. before the summit and 2) to round up an O.A.U. majority for a resolution opposing all foreign interference in Angola. He had no trouble convincing Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko, who has at least 1,000 army regulars fighting with the F.N.L.A. Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast and Senegal's Leopold Senghor also went along. Washington also persuaded Ethiopia to hold off recognition at least until after the summit, on the ground that as host to the O.A.U., it should remain neutral...
...sitting in chairs beside the fireplace beneath a painting of George Washington. When they were done talking about the bargain that had been struck, Agnew slipped away, and Nixon, looking more chipper and relaxed than he had in some time, was host to a state dinner for President Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast...