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...nationalist Istiqlal Party, most dogged advocate of Mauritania's annexation. Last month, he decided to repatriate four prominent Mauritanian exiles who had been leading the campaign against their country, from Morocco for several years. In May, when Africa's leaders meet for a "summit" conference at Addis Ababa, Hassan is expected to make Morocco's new policy official...
...often contribute to international amity. While visiting Korea in 1956, for example, Ellender announced that the South Koreans, then considered good U.S. allies, were nothing better than "bloodsuckers." He found the public market in Mogadishu, Somalia "untidy," but nothing as compared with the "filth" of those in Addis Ababa. He noted that in Nepal "the streets were filled with people. Apparently the citizens do not work very much...
...terminals. But towering (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs.), affable Nelson Mandela sped from one hideout to another. Often he telephoned newspapers with defiant statements against the government; once he even gave a television interview to the BBC. Last February he traveled to a Pan-African congress in Addis Ababa and returned unnoticed...
...doggedness of I.O.S.'s global salesmen. One flew into Portuguese Guinea to sell a prospective client, learned that his quarry was out in the bush, signed up four others before trekking into the bush after the first man. He bought. Another salesman lectured the Addis Ababa Rotary Club on mutuals, at meal's end had even the waiters trying to buy in. A salesman in Italy was less successful; Gangster Lucky Luciano died three days before their scheduled appointment...
Most of Addis Ababa's 450,000 people live in primitive mud huts with no sanitation. Said one visiting Senegalese: "If this is the heritage of freedom, I say 'Bring back the colonialists...