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...corruption and extravagant government spending. Ghana has since become a case study in African nationalism gone wrong, and lately a prototype for young African countries beset with similar problems. In West Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Upper Volta and Liberia have all suffered similar revolutions within the past two years; The Gambia and Sierra Leone have narrowly avoided similar revolts. Much of the difficulty, as Rawlings insists, stems from government elites that squander resources and are unable to control their economies...
...international lineup was astounding England, Iran, Libya, Gambia, Nigeria. Yugoslavia, and Norway were represented. (Papagianis, though a native Greek, was an American citizen.) American talent was also present: the '70 backup and '71 starting goalkeeper was Papagianis' Mather House roommate, Shep Messing...
...addition to the no-shows and the never-stop was one guest who was almost a nogo: Sir Dawda K. Jawara, President of Gambia, who lingered a day in England after being regretfully informed by the Foreign Office that he had been deposed in a coup - but who at week's end returned to Africa to try to unseat the rebels...
Besides restocking animals for display, some zoos hope such breeding experiments can provide the basis for new populations in protected habitats. The London Zoo has already helped put zoo-bred chimpanzees into the forests of Gambia, where they seem to be surviving. Several of the Bronx Zoo's condors now dive and wheel over the mountains of Peru. One of the most prestigious breeding programs has been established on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, where a British group under the honorary directorship of Biologist-Author Gerald Durrell has been breeding everything from rare primates (lemurs...
...Ernest Kinoy and Producer Stan Margulies constructed a plot that chronicles Haley's family from 1882 to 1965. Roots 2 opens in Henning, Tenn., where Chicken George settled the family at the end of Roots 1. The show's climax will dramatize Haley's arrival in Gambia to search for traces of his African forebear, Kunta Kinte. Along the way, Roots 2 will encompass the Reconstruction, two world wars, the growth of urban black ghettos and the birth of the modern civil rights movement...