- Title: AFRICA: 1970 - TURN OF A DECADE IN AFRICA'S PROGRESS
- Date: 25th November 1970
- Summary: 564/70 NIGERIA: 1. CU General Gowon 0.32 2. SCU Colonel Effiong and other Biafran leaders. 0.42 3. CU Effiong 1.09 622/70 NIGERIA: 4. CU Pan over starving children. (2 shots) 1.34 893/70 CAMEROUN: 5. GV Conference Building 1.38 6. SV Delegate arrive and enter 1.46 7. GV Int. Conference 1.49 8. SV Delegates from Gabon and Central African Republic 1.54 9. CU Congo People's Rep. Delegate 1.57 10. CU Dahomey Delegate 1.58 11. SV Madagascar Delegate 2.02 12. SV Pan Upper Volta, Niger, and Mauritius delegate 2.10 13. GV Conference. 2.14 0211/70 CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE: 14. GV Major Ngouabi arrives, passes guard of honour, up steps and into building. 2.24 15. CU Republic flag 2.29 16. SV Ngouabi talks oath, French SOF starts "A la revolution... et la paix" ends on applause. 3.04 3112A/70 SENEGAL: 17. GV General scenes of marching (5 shots) 3.25 18. SCU Diouf, Senghor and Diallo watch parade 3.26 19. GV General scenes of parade (9 shots) 3.32 5783/70 CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE: 20. GV Boat on river 4.10 21. SV Interior. President, Ngouabi, Tombalbaye and Mobutu seated during talks 22. SV Presidents Ngouabi and Bokassa 4.20 23. GV Crowd on quayside 4.24 24. SV Presidents depart, crowds cheer (3 shots) 4.33 1003/70 & 10234/70 MOZAMBIQUE: 25. GV River and construction workers (2 shots) 4.46 26. GV Drilling rock-face (2 shots) 4.57 27. CU Bull-dozer pushing earth into river and GV site. 5.14 28. GV Aircraft take off (2 shots) 5.25 29. AV Terrain with smoke rising (3 shots) 5.36 30. GV Helicopter lands, troops run into jungle (4 shots) 5.47 31. GV Helicopter flying over troops and vehicles on road. 6.02 32. GV Pan to helicopter collecting wounded (3 shots) 6.16 4711/70 MALAWI: 33. SV Int. Vortser and Banda enter room and sit (4 shots) 6.40 34. GV London 6.45 35. CU Banda SOF starts: "Did you complain.?" Banda answers: "That's my business....in that at all." 7.15 1893/70 RHODESIA: 36. SCU Smith greeted by Du Pont 7.22 37. CU Cameraman filming Smith signing document and shaking hands with Du Pont. 7.53 8323/70 ACCRA: 38. GV State House Conference Hall 7.57 39. GV Int. Guests entering 8.01 40. SV Crowd around President Akufo-Addo SOF STARTS: "I, Edward Akufo-Addo.. ENDS: "....so help me God" (applause) 8.40 5963/70 TANZANIA: 41. GV Harbour dredging, men shovelling stones into water, and pan harbour (4 shots) 9.06 9842/70 TANZANIA: 42. GV Pan copper ingots (3 shots) 9.19 43. GV Chinese ship in harbour 9.23 44. LV Chinese and Tanzanian workers working on line 9.31 45. GV Pan railway authority building, with Chinese and Tanzanian Minister leaving after talks (2 shots) 9.44 10223/70 TANZANIA: 46. GV Flags and signs 9.48 47. LV President Kaunda shakes hands with Chinese 9.55 48. SV President Kaunda lays commemorative plaque (3 shots) 10.10 49. GV Tractors and bulldozers start work. 10.25 6923/70 U.K.: 50. GV Keino winning race, crowd applauding, Queen presents medal. 11.08 6826/70 U.K.: 51. GV Crowd with banners 11.14 52. SV Man argues with police SOF STARTS: "I'm telling him.." ENDS: "..how much" 11.26 53. LV Lord Soper and Trevor Huddleston walk to 10, Downing Street with petition 11.39 7056/70&6963/70 ZAMBIA: 54. GV Crowd running towards High Commission, and scenes of demonstration (3 shots) 12.05 55. GV Crowd running towards flag-pole, High Commissioner looks out of doorway, and man tries to rip down Union Jack. 12.19 56. SV Demonstrators try to remove crest above entrance. 12.27 7379/70 U.S.A.: 57. GV Mobutu out of car and greeted by Nixon, then by William Rogers - Zoom to Presidents and wives on balcony (5 shots) 12.54 8543/70 ZAMBIA: 58. GV Conference Hall and flags of nations 13.05 59. SV President Kaunda meets Emperor Haile Selassie, followed by President Obote, Archbishop Makarios, Pres. Nyerere, Rwanda delegate (7 shots) 13.31 8660/70 ZAMBIA: 60. GV INT. Kaunda addressing conference 13.43 61. CU Delegate 13.47 62. LV Kaunda leads delegates in singing freedom song PAN to other delegates applauding (SOF) 14.32 9860/70 U.K.: 63. CU Downing Street sign Prime Minister Heath shaking hands with Busia of Ghana followed by other leaders. In the streets, demonstrators with anti-apartheid banners. Ends on night-shot of Kaunda taking leave of Heath (5 shots). 15.13 10658/70 U.N.: 64. SCU President Kaunda "Mr. President, to supply arms to South Africa..." ENDS: "..from the sale of arms" 15.13 9326/70 U.A.R.: 65. GTV Mass crowds around cortege, including world leaders (6 shots) 17.52 10632/70 U.A.R.: 66. GV Delegates seated, including Arafat, Anwar Sadat, Shafei, Aly Sabri and Mohsen Abu El-Nur, Nimeiry, Abu Isa, Gaddafi and delegates, and meeting (8 shots). 18.23 10488/70 ETHIOPIA: 67. GV Haile Selassie in open car with mounted escort through streets, and driving to Parliament, crowds, dignitaries enter Parliament and shake hands with Haile Selassie (6 shots) 18.53 10341/70 IVORY COAST: 68. GV INT. delegates applaud. PAN to portrait of President Houphouet-Boigny 19.03 69. SV President and party seated, Mamadou Coulibaly speaks FRENCH SOF BEGINS: "Le parti democratique..." ENDS: "... de nos cours d'eau". Delegates applaud. (10 shots) 19.55 6651/70 IVORY COAST: 70. GV City of Abidjan from Houphouet-Boigny bridge; aircraft arrives, people leave aircraft. (5 shots) 20.20 71. GV Hotels with swimming pool (2 shots) 20.27 72. GV Foreign ships in harbour, with Russian, Dutch ad Greek flags (4 shots) 20.36 73. GV Oil refinery depot (S.I.R.) (2 shots) 20.44 74. GV Italian oil storage tanks (A.G.I.P.) 20.47 75. GV Sky-scraper building under construction (3 shots) 21.02 76. GV ZOOM from old office block to new sky-scraper 21.15 5060/70 KENYA: 77. SV Radio dish PAN over station, operator presses buttons, oscilloscope in close-up, long-view of dish, and aerial view of whole station. (7 shots) 21.57 TRANSCRIPT: SEQ 1: GENERAL GOWON: "We have fought a long bitter battle and it has ended in a victory for common sense. Victory for the unity of the country, and we have go cause to thank all the people of this country for what they have done to help to keep this country one." SEQ 2: COLONEL EFFIONG: "I would therefore like to take this opportunity to say that I, Major-General Philip Administering the Government of the Republic of Biafra, now wish to make the following declaration. That we affirm we are loyal Nigerian citizens and accept the authority of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria". SEQ 69: MAMADOU COULIBALY: "The Democratic Party of the Ivory Coast wants to pursue until the end, the objectives which it has assigned itself within the African Democratic Movement. It wants to lead the Ivory coast to economic independence and make the Ivory Coast citizen the equal of the citizen of the happiest countries in the world. Therefore, union, discipline and work are the words of strength from which to achieve the full development of our land, our minds, our industry and our waterways" Initials BB/AW/VC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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