IVORY COAST: FORMER AMERICAN UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR AFRICAN AFFAIRS, MENNEN WILLIAMS, VISITS ABIDJAN.

Record ID: 183343

  • Title: IVORY COAST: FORMER AMERICAN UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR AFRICAN AFFAIRS, MENNEN WILLIAMS, VISITS ABIDJAN.
  • Date: 19th January 1972
  • Summary: 1. GV EXTERIOR..Museum 0.05 2. CU INTERIOR..Sign on display PAN to mask 0.11 3. MV PAN..Display of traditional sculpture 0.19 4. SCU PAN..Williams looking at masks and other exhibits (4 shots) 0.46 6. MV Sign "Houphouet-Boigny room" PAN to party looking at exhibits (2 shots) 1.00 7. CU Mask and sculpture (2 shots) 1.15 Initials ES. 1505 ES. 1520 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 3rd February 1972 12:00
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  • Location: ABIDJAN, IVORY
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Reuters ID: LVA2ZNXR95H2WHRJXIBKSAQ9J68F
  • Story Text: Mr. Mennen Williams, the former American Under-Secretary of State for African Affairs, visited the National Museum in Abidjan on Monday (17 January) during a 48-hour private visit to the Ivory Coast. The day before, he was received at a dinner by President Houphouet-Boigny.

    Mr. Williams, a former Governor of Michigan and currently on the bench of the Michigan Supreme Court, held the post in the State Department during the administration of President John F. Kennedy.
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