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Aubame had only one thing in common with Mba-the roots and culture of the once-cannibalistic Fang people, a tribe that has dominated Gabon's northern reaches since the early 1800s. Last year, when Mba tried to ease Aubame out of the Cabinet by offering him the presidency of the Supreme Court, the deal fell through. As chief of the opposition, Aubame insisted on also keeping his National Assembly seat. Last month, with the defeat of a bill aimed at eliminating one of Aubame's two jobs, Mba flew into a rage and tried to force...
...late 1800s, long lines formed outside saloons all over New York City. But the queuers were not thirsty; they were there to be naturalized, a process that Irish-controlled Tammany Hall had made easy. Inside the saloon, everybody was handed a red card stating: "Please naturalize the bearer." Card in hand, the bearer went to court, where Tammany judges naturalized as many as 150 at a time. Tests were unheard...
...Europe was plunged in the Dark Ages. The West was ascendant from 331 B.C., when Alexander swept through Asia Minor and into India, to about A.D. 200, when Roman power in the Near East crumbled. The second era of Western ascendancy began around 1500 and extended to the mid-1800s...
Farm Hands to Presidents. Argentina's great wave of Italian immigrants -which in time reached 2,250,000-began in the 1800s, when the country needed farm hands to help bring in its beef and wheat crops. Before long, thousands of Italians-giddy with romantic tales of the Argentine pampas-were hurrying across the Atlantic. In the mid-1800s, some 200 Italian families set up a silk-spinning industry in Chaco province; later they began a cotton industry. When Argentina constructed a new Congress building, it was an Italian architect who designed it, an Italian company that built...
Spreading Asphalt. I.P.C. is not the original villain in the piece. The U.S. company simply controls a piece of land under terms that have infuriated Peruvians for generations. In the early 1800s, the La Brea area was known only for its tar pits, which were leased by the government to private contractors for limited periods. In 1826 the tar pits, with 100 surrounding acres, were sold to private investors-and there the trouble began...