TOGO ARRANGING THINGS FOUR MONTHS AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT SYLVANUS OLYMPIO 
BY A DISGRUNTLED ARMY SERGEANT, THE TOGOLESE ELECTORATE WENT DUTIFULLY TO 
THE POLLS THIS WEEK TO CHOOSE A NEW GOVERNMENT . THERE 
WAS LITTLE SUSPENSE ABOUT THE OUTCOME . THE VOTERS, HANDED A 
SINGLE LIST, COULY ONLY RUBBER-STAMP THE MILITARY-BACKED REGIME THAT HAS SUCCEEDED 
OLYMPIO IN THE TINY WEST AFRICAN REPUBLIC . SLATED FOR A 
CONTINUED FIVE-YEAR TERM AS PRESIDENT IS NICOLAS GRUNITZKY, 50, THE MULATTO 
SON OF A PRUSSIAN DOCTOR AND TOGOLESE MOTHER WHO HEADED A 
PRO-FRENCH PUPPET REGIME BEFORE OLYMPIO GAINED INDEPENDENCE FROM PARIS IN 1960, 
AND WHO WAS CALLED UPON TO TAKE OVER AS PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT 
LAST JANUARY . TICKETED TO STAY ON AS VICE PRESIDENT WAS 
ANTOINE MEATCHI, 37, A TALL, AMBITIOUS NORTHERN TRIBESMAN . TO KEEP 
THE VARIOUS PARTY FACTIONS HAPPY, THE ELECTION ORGANIZERS AGREED IN ADVANCE 
ON THE MAKEUP OF A 56-MEMBER NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, DIVIDED AMONG VIRTUALLY 
ALL POLITICAL PARTIES, INCLUDING OLYMPIO'S COMITE D'UNION UNITE TOGOLAISE AND ITS 
ONETIME YOUTH WING, JUVENTO, SO THAT NONE HAS A MAJORITY . 
BACKING UP THE WHOLE PACKAGE IS TOGO'S FRENCH-TRAINED ARMY, WHOSE DISCONTENT 
OVER LOW PAY AND MANPOWER LED TO OLYMPIO'S OVERTHROW . ITS 
RANKS HAVE SINCE BEEN DOUBLED TO 550 MEN . PERHAPS THE 
WORLD'S GRANDEST PARTY LABEL, JUVENTO TAKES ITS NAME FROM THE FIRST 
LETTERS OF THE FRENCH WORDS : JUSTICE, UNION, VIGILANCE, EGALITE, NATIONALISME, 
TENACITE AND OPTIMISME . 