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...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...
...much friction as good will. For that matter, so did most of the major events of Mrs. Meir's six-day swing through Europe, which began with two days of dialogue and demonstration in Paris and ended with a strange Geneva meeting with Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny...
...give his people a larger share of the wealth, Houphouet has started a program of "Ivorization." He has forbidden French doctors, lawyers and other professionals to open new practices. In the past three years he has trimmed French imports by a fifth (but they still account for 50% of all imports). The government urges company chiefs to put more blacks in high-level jobs and gives Ivorian businessmen easy loans to start new enterprises...
...most promising attempts at Ivorization are two giant development programs undertaken without French help. One is a $105 million dam that will double the country's power capacity by 1976. When the French, who own all of the Ivory Coast's present power plants, opposed the scheme, Houphouet turned to the U.S. and Italy for financing. The other project is a $2 billion "African Riviera" development intended to make Abidjan the tourist capital of the continent. By 1980, the development is scheduled to have 15 hotels, four shopping centers, a 27-hole golf course, housing...