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...World. It was in the North too that Nigeria's written history began-in the walled-caravan center of Kano, whose chronicles date back to A.D. 960 and whose big, modern airport today is one of the world's busiest. For coastal Nigeria the ages passed without written record until the late 15th century, when Portuguese adventurers sailed and marched up the creeks to Benin, whose 16th and 17th century bronzes (some of which depict Portuguese traders) are now among Africa's most treasured art objects. To the Portuguese-and the English who eventually displaced them-Nigeria...
Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.).* The unearthing of the remains of Timna, the capital city of the pre-Christian kingdom of Qataban, by a pioneering archaeological expedition to the spice caravan routes of Southern Arabia...
...Live!" The legislature's capital-punishment hearing took place against the stir and clamor of mounting agitation to save Chessman from the "green room," as Death Row inmates call it. An auto caravan pulled into Sacramento bringing 384 University of California faculty signatures on a petition urging abolition of capital punishment. A rodeo rider, billed as a "minuteman," drove his tired horse from San Francisco to Sacramento, picking up save-Chessman signatures along the way. An unemployed schoolteacher named Norbert Nicholas was in the fourth day of a save-Chessman hunger strike in Sacramento. At the capitol building...
...tries to show a bit too much good will to varied hosts. In segregated South Africa, the Natal Daily News gleefully quoted his observation that "Americans are not critical of your color policies." And last week, when informed that the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan would issue visas to the caravan only if no Jews were along, Wally airily replied: "We have it in black and white that there is not a single one in the whole group...
...trailers, fitted with kitchen, shower, radio, window screens, flush toilet, are as comfortable as Miami bungalows. But the life is not. On the very first day out of Cape Town, one trailer landed in a ditch, and seven dropped out later. Along one rugged wasteland in southern Ethiopia the caravan lost 22 truck axles, and the passengers had to clear the trails themselves. ("Drive a mile," said one lady's diary, "work two hours on the road . . . Everyone very tired...