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...CONGO, Leopoldville (Bel.) Pop.: 17,000,000. Size: 905,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 20%. School attendance: 50%. College graduates: 35. Christians: Nominal 47%. In interior, population is almost totally illiterate; sorcery, ritual killings, tribal warfare persist. Less than 10% are serious Christians; 504 priests, 121 nongraduate doctors serve one of Africa's biggest populations...
...RWANDA 21. BURUNDI ( Bel.) Pop.: 3,000,000. Pop.: 2,500,000. Size: 11,000 sq. mi. Size: 10,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 25%. School attendance: 30%. College graduates: 60 plus (excluding priests). Christians: over 50%. Fewer than 2% attend secondary schools. Savage customs prevalent; natives venerate cattle...
...headquarters in the Algerian city of Sidi-bel-Abbès, the French Foreign Legion last week awaited the sound of Taps. On the surface nothing was changed...
...detachment has already gone to its new training area in the hills of Corsica. Another detachment is moving to new headquarters at Aubagne, a suburb of Marseille -marking the first time that the Legion has been stationed on the French mainland in peacetime. "Transporting the Legion from Sidi-bel-Abbès is like uprooting a gnarled olive tree," says Legionnaire Colonel Alberic Vaillant. "It requires care and attention to make sure the old tree will flourish in new soil...
...abandonment of the old headquarters at Sidi-bel-Abbès makes many Legionnaires feel that the days of glory are over. They cannot get the old thrill from plans to reshape the Legion into a crack, technical-minded force able to carry out all tasks, including nuclear ones. The change of headquarters from sun-scorched Sidi-bel-Abbes to the French mainland has been accompanied by a sharp decline in candidates for enlistment. An ex-Legionnaire, who was not surprised, grumbled, "Men joined the Foreign Legion for adventure, to see camels, giraffes and Tonkinese girls-not the suburbs...