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President and Madame Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Republic of Ivory Coast will visit the University today. The president and his wife, accompanied by a number of other Ivory Coast dignitaries, are on a state tour of the United States...
President John Kennedy had dispatched Brother Bobby to the Ivory Coast as a gesture of friendship to one of Africa's most European-minded rulers: President Félix Houphouet-Boigny. The Ivory Coast was celebrating its first anniversary of independence after more than a century of French rule. Arriving in Abidjan, capital of the New Mexico-sized nation of coffee and cocoa plantations, Attorney General Kennedy was met at an airport reception with red carpet and tribal dances. Manfully (since he facetiously says that it took him eight years to complete second-year French in school). Bobby Kennedy...
...gleamed in marble glory above cool fountains and wide terraces. There, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, made some sort of diplomatic fashion history by appearing in cutaway coat and green polka-dot bow tie. There, too, Bobby announced the U.S. gift to Houphouet-Boigny of a beige, two-engined Aero Commander plane. (The Ivory Coast's President is scared of flying, but he appreciated the sentiment.) Bobby, Ethel and their entourage watched bare-breasted girls performing a "Dance of Joy" under eucalyptus trees, saw a three-hour parade that included...
...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...