Word: gabon
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...Among those taping statements were the leaders of Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, West Germany, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Canada, Australia and Japan. The entire program was scheduled to be broadcast in the last five countries. Argentina, Brazil, Gabon, Mexico, Oman, South Africa and Togo were among other recipients...
When Rosalyn Lezberg found out she would be spending the next two years in Gabon, she knew exactly two things about the country: it lies on the equator, and it has lots...
...encyclopedia she turned to next was not too helpful; printed before a slew of African nations won independence in the 60s, it still discussed Gabon as a colony. "What it did say was not very comforting," she recalls. "Something about a prevalence of snakes and large cats...
...July, Lezberg will join the snakes, the large cats, and the celestial monkeys as part of the Peace Corp's Teaching English as a Foreign Language Program. "English was just made a requirement in Gabon secondary schools," she says, now well-read in Peace Corps literature on the country. "I'll have three months of intensive training in Gabon, and then I guess it's likely that I'll be teaching in a secondary school...
...going to be hard to leave my boyfriend," she says. "And its very difficult for my parents that I'm going away for two years to a place that can't be reached by telephone." She shrugs and adds. "But my mother tells me I'm probably safer in Gabon than in New York City...