Word: dar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nongastronomic tourists may settle for sightseeing: hiring a car and guide (average rate: $25 a day) to visit the ancient walled city of Taroudant with its elegant Moorish Dar Baroud Palace, or crossing over the Tizi n'Tichka pass, a three-hour drive from Marrakesh, into the picturesque "casbah country" with its fortified villages built of clay that melts like chocolate in a heavy rain. Or they may spend the day shopping in the souks of Fez or Marrakesh, haggling for bargains in brightly patterned Moroccan rugs, ornate silver jewelry or silk brocade caftans-the flowing, T-shaped garment...
...Dar es Salaam's sprawling Kariakoo market, a screaming mob halted buses and dragged off African girls wearing tight dresses or miniskirts. The girls were beaten and some had their clothes ripped off. With fine impartiality, the mob also beat up youths wearing tight-fitting satiny pants. It was "cultural revolution," African style...
...Lost. It was an unhappy choice. Unlike their Chinese counterparts, Tanzania's style-conscious girls are staging a vigorous cultural counterrevolution. At the University of Dar es Salaam, a group of youths paraded placards declaring "Minis for Decadent Europe." In retaliation, coeds donned their shortest minis and routed the green guards with a chant of "Get lost." Girls at a youth hostel unanimously voted that "men should not decide what women will wear." One secretary defended her mini, explaining that it made it easier for her to move around the office and push through a crowded bus. A women...
...world's foremost producer, which supplies 35% of the world market, or about 220,000 tons a year. Last year, when Tanzania nationalized sisal plantations in an attempt to control its traditional No. 1 crop, scores of white settlers were left without compensation. Now the Socialists in Dar es Salaam are quietly advising some ex-sisal farmers that they can have their plantations back. The government has decided that it is better, after all, for the individual entrepreneur to lose money than for it to take a beating in its budget. Sisal used to be Tanzania's largest...
When the big Boeing 707 touched down at Algiers' Dar-el-Beida airport, Algerian authorities impounded the plane. Next day they sent all passengers identified as non-Israelis to France on Air Algérie Caravelle jets after treating the detoured travelers well and giving them a sightseeing trip around Algiers. Twelve Israeli passengers and the crew of ten were held along with the plane, possibly as hostages for hundreds of Arab guerrillas currently in Israeli custody, though ten women and children were released at week's end. The hijackers were quickly identified as Palestinian Arab commandos attached...