The World - News from Oct. 29, 1985
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President Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, black Africa’s longest-serving leader, won 99% approval in a referendum for a sixth five-year term, the government announced. More than 98% of the West African country’s voters reportedly cast ballots. Houphouet-Boigny, 80, who ran unopposed, has led the nation since independence from France in 1960.
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