Word: lix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Colonel Hakim Félix Ellellou, Kush's Muslim-Marxist President, such imports are ideological and theological blasphemies. Yet Ellellou himself has had his head turned by the West. At 17, he left his native village to join the French colo nial army. He served in Indochina before Dien Bien Phu and spent the middle '50s studying liberal arts in Wisconsin. Back home, married to a white college sweet heart, Ellelloū rose through the ranks under a French-puppet king and then emerged as the leader of the coup that put him in power...
...long tradition of shrugging off sexual improprieties with an attitude of amused tolerance. Former President Georges Pompidou managed to survive gossip that his high-spirited wife took more than a cultural interest in the fun-loving young artists of the Saint-Tropez jet set. Third Republic President Félix Fauré achieved a kind of instant canonization in 1899, when it was learned that he died performing his amorous arts in a ground-floor room at the Elysée. The liaison amoureuse, in fact, is as venerable and popular an institution in Paris...
...behind is France's Emmanuel Félix de Wimpffen, who briefly led Napoleon Ill's army during the Franco-Prussian War and deserves special mention for his ingenious plan to break through the Prussian lines. Wimpffen's scheme placed France's combat forces on one side of the enemy and their supply lines on the other, at the same time leaving Paris completely unprotected...
Many of the 5,000,000 citizens of the Ivory Coast are devout animists who revere the crocodile as a sacred beast. So President Félix Houphouet-Boigny, himself a Roman Catholic, does little to quash the widespread belief that he keeps the palace pond well stocked with the respected reptiles and consults them regularly...
...Tanzania and Uganda-have been moderately successful. But the African Development Bank, created to finance regional cooperation schemes, has little money to lend because only nine African states have paid up their allotted subscriptions. "What are we supposed to share?" asks the Ivory Coast's President, Félix Houphouet-Boigny. "Each other's poverty...