Word: colombe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sahara's wealth is not confined to oil: southeast of Tindouf lies what may prove one of the world's largest iron deposits (an estimated 2 billion tons of better-than-50% ore), and below the coalmining center of Colomb-Béchar geologists have found a lode of manganese capable of yielding 50,000 tons a year. Today the great cost of transporting them out of the Sahara excludes exploitation of these heavy ores. But Soustelle, firmly if vaguely, continues to talk of the day when "we shall see materialize in the Sahara...
...Francisco's KPFA-FM there was a book review by Bohemian Poet Kenneth Rexroth; the next, a talk by Art Critic Hubert Crehan on "The 'Scandalous' Art of D.H. Lawrence''; the day after, a performance of Paul Claudel's Christophe Colomb in French, with Jean-Louis Barrault, and for the kiddies a dramatization of The Wind in the Willows. Listeners could tune in talks by a pacifist, a spokesman for the Socialist Workers Party, the conservatives' conservative Russell Kirk, and a psychiatrist who testified at the trial of Leopold and Loeb...
...three months"). To conservative French Catholics and the Vatican's Holy Office, it is a wrenching departure from tradition, alarming both by its content and the mood that produced it-so much so that the Vatican ordered it withdrawn, reportedly called on its author, Lyon-born Canon Joseph Colomb, to resign...
Under this bombardment, the train's former passengers have taken to flying, and the coal once carried to Oran from the mines of Colomb-Béchar is now diverted by way of Morocco. But for the prestige-conscious French, the train must chuff on. Once a week it sets forth from Colomb-Béchar, but only after two regiments of Foreign Legionnaires and Senegalese have inspected every inch of the line...
...rebel force harrying the Colomb-Béchar Express is only one of a number of Algerian guerrilla bands which have long operated in and out of neighboring Morocco and Tunisia. Last week on Algeria's eastern border, a patrol of the French Army's 26th Motorized Infantry Regiment, ambushed by a small band of Algerian guerrillas, chased its attackers 300 yards inside Tunisia. When Tunisian troops tried to intervene, the French killed six Tunisians as well as six Algerians. In response to an indignant protest from the Tunisian government, French Commander in Chief in Algeria, General Raoul...