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...Sudanese Ministry of Information insists that the policy of the government "has always been, and shall always be, freedom of worship for all citizens without discrimination." Exiled missionaries insist that Christians are being forcibly converted to Islam, and last week heard that the Cathedral of Juba, on the White Nile, had been converted into a mosque...
Born. To Dovima (real name: Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba), 30, lissome (5 ft. 8 in., 115 Ibs.) Manhattan high-fashion model ($75 an hour), and Immigration Department Official Alan Murray, 31: their first child, a girl; in Manhattan. Name: Alison. Weight...
...years Egypt and the Sudan have worked under an agreement that gives Egypt twelve-thirteenths of the Nile's flow, the Sudan the remainder. Egypt completely controls the Jebel Auliya Dam 450 miles inside Sudanese territory, keeps careful watch on the Nile's flow at Malakal and Juba. But the Sudanese, increasingly annoyed at Egypt's interference, may decide to go ahead at Roseires anyway. And they hold one long-term trump card: refusal to let Egypt undertake the proposed Aswan High Dam unless the Sudan gets more Nile water upstream...
Dinkas & Bongos. That was at Juba, 750 miles south of Khartoum (pop. 82,700). The pattern was the same last week all over the 1,000,000 sq. mi. of desert, swamp and irrigated cotton land of the Sudan. In an area larger than the U.S. east of the Mississippi, 1,250,000 tribesmen, nine out of ten of them illiterate, were riding on bullocks or camels, trekking across dunes and marshes, to 2,000 polling booths, where the magic papers lay. Six of Sudan's eight millions are Northerners, who worship Allah but still practice female circumcision...
When the attack began, Lieut. General Cunningham sent his troops this message: "Hit them. Hit them hard, and hit them again." They did, and did again. It took them two months to force a crossing of the crucial Juba River, 100 miles from British Kenya; then it took them only two days to dash 200 miles more from the Juba to Mogadiscio. In the exploit they claimed more than 9,000 captives. Having lost British Somaliland (68,000 square miles) last August, and now having virtually won. Italian Somaliland (194,000 square miles), the British were, as ever, pleased...