The first of Africa's six new nations to get its independence in 1960 celebrated its beginnings last week with half the country in a state of emergency.
On the morning of the first day of independence, terrorists killed five people in the capital of Yaounde, and the foreign dignitaries who streamed in by air at Douala the day before could see the ruins of the control tower ransacked by another insurgent gang. In six months of struggle 22 whites have diedmore than were killed in a similar period during the Mau Mau war in Kenyaand 500 or more Africans.
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