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John D. Gerhart '65 is a CRIMSON reporter now teaching in Dar es Salaam with Project Tanganyika...
...city of Dar es Salaam woke early on the morning of Saturday, January 25. At about 6:15 citizens all over the sprawling capital were shaken out of bed by what some thought at first was an early onset of the monsoon season. But the evenly-spaced rumblings in the distance were not thunder; they were a diversionary barrage from the anti-aircraft guns of the British aircraft carrier Centaur. By 7 a.m., when government workers began leaving for their 7:30 jobs, Tanganyika's five-day-old army mutiny was over and East Africa's oldest independent government...
Beaming Burghers. Perhaps only a truly melancholy man could generate such frivolity. His melodies are delightful and earthy, but they are also the work of a composer who somewhat pitifully liked to be known as "the Mozart of the Champs-Elysées." In his last years, Offenbach struggled to complete his one entirely serious opera, but when he died in 1880, only the piano score for Hoffmann was finished. He was popular in his lifetime, but he accepted his acclaim with some bitterness. "I am happy to have my small place," he said acidly. "I know...
...about occupied France, it has Simone Signoret as the chic Parisienne who is drawn into the Resistance movement by the irresistible U.S. flyer (Stuart Whitman). Together they make their way to a bittersweet parting at the Spanish border, along an underground route as familiar as the Champs-Elysées...
Easing the Sting. Even as British helicopters fluttered over the bush back of Dar es Salaam, rounding up the last of Tanganyika's mutineers, Julius Nyerere was taking steps to ease the sting of shame his cry for assistance had caused. He called for a meeting of 34 African foreign and defense ministers in Dar es Salaam this week to consider "the implications for African unity and our nonalignment policies of the happenings in East Africa." A longtime booster of East African federation, Nyerere hopes to lay the groundwork for a mutual defense agreement that would eliminate the need...