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...supertanker Marpessa sailed serenely past West Africa on the second leg of her maiden voyage, an explosion suddenly ripped her hull. Last week the shattered hulk slipped to the bottom about 50 miles off Dakar. Marpessa was the biggest oil tanker to sink to date. Fortunately, she was empty-a narrow escape from what has become a serious threat to the surprisingly vulnerable ocean...
...labor camp on a trumped-up charge of "speculation." In 1966, when hundreds of distinguished Soviet intellectuals were publicly protesting the sentencing of Sinyavsky and Daniel to eight and five years' hard labor for having allegedly written anti-Soviet works, Evtushenko turned up at an arts festival in Dakar, Senegal. Sipping champagne with newsmen, Evtushenko said of the two writers' conviction: "I agree with what was done to them, but not with how it was done. I agree they should have been punished. Should they be allowed to wash their dirty linen outside their own country...
...situation is worse in French-speaking West Africa. In all nine countries (pop. 26 million), there are only two universities, Senegal's University of Dakar, and the Ivory Coast's University of Abidjan, together enrolling fewer than 3,000 students. Though Senegal's economy is almost completely grounded on farming, there is no school of agriculture at the brightly flowered, Dakar campus. In the Congo (Léopoldville), the University of Lovanium proudly displays one of Africa's few nuclear reactors. As a result, it has dozens of black students solving mysteries of nuclear physics, only...
...combination of Machiavelli and Cyrano de Bergerac." Truth is no defense. Former Cabinet Minister Henry Lemery, 93, was found guilty and fined for writing that De Gaulle, as the leader of Free French forces during World War II, personally ordered attacks against Vichy French garrisons in Dakar and Algeria-even though most historians now agree that he did just that. The government indicted the anti-Gaullist weekly Minute on charges of "offending" De Gaulle in an article that described, in scientific terms and without mentioning names, the symptoms of paranoia...
...missing subs proved impossible. Dozens of planes and ships equipped with radar and sonar sounding devices searched wide stretches of the Mediterranean without success. They found bits of debris and oil slicks, which are common in busy sea lanes, but analysis failed to link the findings with either the Dakar or Minerve. When the oxygen reserves of the two vessels were exhausted three to four days later, hopes for saving the 121 crewmen were abandoned...