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When Mauritania won its independence in 1960, sovereignty and sand were about all it had. Sprawled across the lower Sahara on Africa's Atlantic hump, the arid nation is twice the size of France but has only 800,000 people and an average per-capita income of less than $80 yearly. Nonetheless, since 1956 Morocco has been struggling to annex "the stolen sands of Mauritania," which it claims were illegally taken from colonial Morocco by French Army surveyors. Under the late King Mohammed V, a "Moroccan Liberation Army" even tried to "free" Mauritania; with support from Russia, Morocco managed...
...blackboard-and-pointer method he has employed in the past. Certainly it ought to be easy enough to show, with appropriate graphs and models, the millions of students in over-crowded classrooms, the expected doubling of college enrollments by 1970, the fourfold difference in per capita expenditures on education between some states, and the continued inadequate level of teachers' salaries in many parts of the country...
More spare fuel tanks were installed in the rear compartment, where the remaining 32 passengers sat. At peak capacity, a TU-114 can carry 220 passengers, although normal seating is 170. But on the Moscow-Havana run, the figure is about 50. which must make it the costliest per capita flight in the world...
...Chicago. Its share of the gross national product is $28.7 billion. Its steadily climbing industrial capacity has reached total gross sales of $23.2 billion; now the leading steel producer in the nation, Chicago turned out one-fifth of the nation's steel in 1962. Chicago's per capita debt is only $206, and the city has a prime credit rating to boot...
Already, moderatism and the economic interests have done a sizeable amount. The changing economy of the region has brought, along with rising productivity, increased per capita income, great increases in urban population, appreciable improvements in public education, and higher standards of health and welfare. They have, in fact, given to the average Southerner a little taste of what he thought was the grandeur of the Old South. It is in this sense that this New Reconstruction is a part of "The Eternal flame of the Confederacy." It kindles a regional pride which once more prompts the Southerner to work...