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<text id=89TT3240>
<title>
Dec. 11, 1989: World Notes:Comoro Islands
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Dec. 11, 1989 Building A New World
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 73
World Notes
COMORO ISLANDS
Death Among The Ilang-Ilang
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<p> Sandwiched in the Indian Ocean channel between Mozambique
and Madagascar, the Comoro Islands (pop. 500,000) are known, if
at all, for vanilla, cloves, ilang-ilang (an exotic flower used
to make perfume) -- and occasionally political drama. Last week,
after surviving three coup attempts during this decade alone,
longtime President Ahmed Abdallah, 70, was assassinated in his
palace.
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<p> The leading suspect is a Frenchman, Robert Denard, 62, head
of a group of about 30 mercenaries who command the 500-member
presidential guard. According to French press reports, Denard,
desperate to foil Abdallah's plan to integrate the guard into
the regular army, visited the palace with his deputy to persuade
the President to change his mind. After the meeting turned
violent, Denard or his deputy apparently shot Abdallah and then
tried to frame a former army commander.
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