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Togo: the Lesson for Africa
Sale, J. Kirk | February 16, 1963 issue

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The assassination of Togo President Sylvanus Olympio recently frightened almost every leader throughout West Africa, not only because it is the region's first major political murder, but because it led to the region's first successful political revolution. It apparently was inspired by no grandiose political philosophy. It simply was angered by Olympio's refusal to give the soldiers any stake in the new nation and was frustrated by the monolith of his one-party government. In other West African nations, leaders, like Olympio, enjoys a position of power at the top of a strong party pyramid, and in every one this party is either officially supreme or virtually unopposed in fact.

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TOGO -- Politics & government; ASSASSINATION; OLYMPIO, Sylvanus; AFRICA, West -- Politics & government; TOGO; AFRICA, West
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