Word: liberia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tough & the Bible. In the past two years Nkrumah's jailings and deportations of members of the opposition have made the biggest headlines. But in Ghana a kind of opposition at least still does exist. Wily President William V. S. Tubman of Liberia chomps on cigars, quotes the Bible and has no opposition at all. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is an absolute monarch. Cold-eyed, shrewd President Sekou Toure of Guinea, Africa's youngest nation, is Marxist-trained, favors Marxist-length speeches (very long), runs his country through a single Marxist-style party...
...Africa, the toughest black leadership tends also to be the most capable. President Tubman has pulled Liberia out of a century of backwardness. Haile Selassie personally set up a constitution, decreed Parliament and Ethiopia's first elections. The way that Sekou Toure organized his country in five short years and under the very noses of the French was a masterpiece...
...clamor against the French holding the tests at all. The Communists, of course, were in full cry against the idea ("a plot to terrorize African peoples into renouncing the struggle for freedom," screamed Moscow Radio), but more important were the protests of nine independent African states meeting in Monrovia, Liberia, who voted unanimously to condemn the experiments. Finally breaking their long silence on their Sahara plans, the French told the African states that the tests would take place in a "desolate region totally uninhabited ... in the dead center of the Sahara about 2,750 kilometers (1,709 miles) from Monrovia...
...Fourth Negro to hold U.S. ambassadorial rank: the other three (all ambassadors to Liberia): Edward R. Dudley (1949-53), Jesse Dwight Locker (1953-55), Richard Lee Jones (since...
...walked through the exhibits examining national products, eager representatives flooded him with gifts: a hippopotamus-skin shield decorated with gold and silver (Ethiopia), a coffee table (Liberia), embroidered linen (Yugoslavia), cloisonne vase (Japan), Bible (Israel), a boxed edition of Don Quixote printed on and bound in cork (Spain), 100 cigars (Cuba). From Eelco van Klef-fens, the European Coal and Steel Community's Ambassador to Great Britain, Ike got a boxed paperweight made up of metal flags of Common Market nations. Though the other gifts were to be sent down to Washington, he said, "My son can carry this...