Word: gabon
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...neutrals form a U.N. majority of the center, but a negative one, having little in common except neutrality. Some, like Togo, Gabon and Congo, are just emerging from the jungle. Others, like India and Thailand and Burma, feel themselves heirs to ancient civilizations. Sweden and Nor way are welfare states with highly developed technologies, while Afghanistan and Nepal have only begun to brush aside the mists of feudalism. Secretary of State Christian Herter recently, and unnecessarily, abandoned Ghana and Guinea to the Communist camp. Nikita Khrushchev sneers at the Philippines and Argentina as U.S. puppets...
...Cameroun, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), Dahomey, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Malagasy, Niger, Somalia, Togo, Upper Volta. Also admitted to membership was the Congo (Leopoldville), but the delegation was not seated, pending settlement of the dispute over representation...
...proud, solemn black men advanced through the murmuring chamber to take their new-won seats. Carrying themselves with graven dignity, often combining ritual facial scars with impeccable European manners, they came from lands of jungle and desert whose very names were scarcely known to the West-Chad, Gabon, Dahomey, Upper Volta. The headlines went to Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro. But in the sweep of history, the 15th U.N. Assembly might be regarded as the time of the Africans...
...others, all African: Republic of the Congo (Belgian), Republic of the Congo (French), Dahomey, Chad, Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Niger, Republic of the Upper Volta, Gabon, Mali Federation, Malagasy Republic, Republic of Cameroun, Togolese Republic and Republic of Somalia...
...independence without the convulsive birth spasms that racked the infant Belgian Congo Republic. Premier Debre promised to sponsor them in their candidacy for the United Nations. Echoing the leaders of the other states, all of whom will remain "associated" with the Community to reap its economic and political advantages, Gabon's Premier Leon M'Ba said: "You can count on Gabon's remaining with France for better or worse...