Word: houphouet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their "unswerving loyalty'' to the U.N. They censured the arrest of Katanga's Moise Tshombe in the Congo, nuclear testing, South Africa's racial policies. They laid the groundwork for technical and economic cooperation, scheduled a second meeting in Lagos later this year. But as Houphouet-Boigny planned, the conference was primarily an initial, amiable stab at getting acquainted...
...Houphouet-Boigny has already modeled his hopes for Africa in miniature in the "committee of Brazzaville," the economic union of twelve former French West Africa states set up last month (TIME, April 7). Speaking for those states, Houphouet-Boigny says: "We have chosen, frankly, the West. We do not wish to engage in war; we do not wish to have the enmity of any group. But we know how to choose our friends: those who will not impair our liberty." Houphouet-Boigny would ultimately like to see the same sort of solidarity emerge from the Monrovia nations. "Our hope...
...Houphouet-Boigny is well aware of the wreckers. "We see the Russian efforts on our continent at the moment, encouraging a policy of hate and war between Africans. If we are naive enough to sever relations with the West, in the end we will be invaded by the Chinese, and the Russians will impose Communism...
...which has tended to open its cold war purse strings in areas where it was scared rather than where it was confident, Houphouet-Boigny's inference is plain: the West would do well to watch -and encourage-Africa's quiet ones...
...Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, an outstanding example of the bourgeois professional in African politics (he is a physician), France's staunchest friend in this Community, and leader of the moderate element in French West Africa...