Kérékou, Mathieu, 1933-2015
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found: Discours, between 1975 and 1979- :v. 2, p. 2 (Chief of State, Lieutenant-Colonel Mathieu Kérékou)
found: Internat. WW, 1979-80:p. 643 (Kérékou, Lt.-Col. Mathieu, b. 9/2/33, Natitingou, Pres. and Prime Minister of Benin, 1972-)
found: Statesman's year-book, 1978-1979:p. 209 (pres. Lieut.-Col. Mathieu Kerecou)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 16, 2015(in obituary published Oct. 15: Mathieu Kérékou; b. Sept. 2, 1933, Kouarfa, Dahomey [now Benin]; d. Wednesday [Oct. 14, 2015], Cotonou, Benin, aged 82; seized control of the West African nation of Benin [called Dahomey until Nov. 30, 1975] in a military coup in 1972 and proclaimed a one-party Marxist state, but nearly two decades later presided over the region's first peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy)
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1980-07-28: new
2015-10-16: revised
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