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Standard bearer of freedom in the old Italian colony (pop. 1,500,000) is Abdullahi Issa, 38. His counterpart in the old British colony (pop. 640,000) is a British-educated rich man's son, Mohammed Ibrahim Egal, 32. When Issa brought up independence last year, Italy told him he could have it whenever he liked. Egal promptly asked for permission to join his colony to the new nation. Britain readily agreed. The two men quickly worked out a merger agreement, and last week the two legislatures simply combined. As the Somali Republic's Provisional President, Issa...
...stands to become the father of this unprepossessing new country is handsome young (37) Premier Abdullahi Issa, and last week he was worried as only a prospective father can be. It was not just that the Italian government has been providing half Somalia's income. There was also the difficulty that, though camels are Somalia's chief source of wealth, much of the Somali nomads' grazing lands lie over the border in Ethiopia. To the frustrated disgust of Somali nationalists, moreover, French Somaliland voted last year to stay in the French Community, and the French, determined...
...belief that the cameras were chests of golden nuggets. Once a quarrel broke out between the Egyptian and the Bedouin members of the company. Hassanein arbitrated, reflected with a deep thankfulness upon the danger he had thus avoided. "For the Bedouins would probably have killed Ahmed and Abdullahi out of hand," reflected this scholar and gentleman. "Then what could I have done, as an Egyptian, but avenge the killing of my countrymen at whatever cost to myself...