Word: dakar
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Bird talked, smiled and handclasped their way through the Nebraska-sized country. They surprised everybody by getting up at 4:30 one morning and driving out of Dakar into the countryside. At the fishing town of Kayar, where the per capita income is $100, the Vice President held out hope: "The rural per capita income of Texas was only $180 in 1930, and today it is $1,800." Cried Lady Bird, catching sight of baskets piled high with peanuts: "Why it's just like Texas...
...economic problems by joining neighboring and more prosperous Senegal in the Mali Federation. But eight months ago, the Senegalese, fearful of Sudanese domination, seceded from the federation; they also refused the Sudanese (who stubbornly clung to the name Mali) further access to Senegal's great, modern port of Dakar. With no outlet to the sea and nothing to sell on world markets save peanuts, kapok and a little rice and dried fish, Mali's Premier Mobido Keita turned to the increasingly popular game of playing West against East...
...with the main goal: "I see before my mind's eye," he declared resoundingly, "a great monolithic party . . . united and strong, spreading its protective wings over the whole of Africa from Algiers in the north to Cape Town in the south, from Cape Guardafui in the east to Dakar in the west...
...guarantee French sovereignty . . . Now we know the French people have a different idea. We must consent by maintaining discipline. But a lot of young officers are not holding their heads high today." The officer corps deeply remembers the war years when Vichyite and Gaullist troops clashed in Syria and Dakar. Above all else, French generals are determined that "never again must the army be divided against itself or against the nation...
...airport. At the controls was Zvi Tohar. chief pilot of the airline, and besides the delegation the Bristol Britannia transport carried an abnormally large crew of 19. Six hours later. New York Manager Joseph Klein went to the airport, had the plane fueled up and cleared for departure to "Dakar, Rome and further destination pending orders from El Al headquarters." Shortly after midnight, as a couple of sleepy watchmen looked on, Klein dispatched the plane himself, and in effect stranded the Israeli delegation. Had the Britannia's 19-man crew carried the captured war criminal with them? Israeli officials...