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There are more than 70 million women and children in Africa today who are genitally mutilated (excised and infibulated). This was discussed at a World Health Organization Seminar in Khartoum in February 1979, with ten African and Middle Eastern countries participating, as the operations are also performed in the Middle East, in Egypt and on the Arab Peninsula. It should be added that Moslem girls in Malaysia and parts of Indonesia are also subjected to sexual operations of a less drastic kind than those performed by over 200 ethnic groups living in more than 26 countries in Africa...
...KHARTOUM, March 1, 1973 During a reception for arriving and departing U.S. envoys, Black September terrorists take over Saudi Arabian embassy, kill both U.S. diplomats and a Belgian chargé d'affaires. They surrender to Sudanese authorities after three days, free three other hostages...
...African Genesis (1961) and The Territorial Imperative (1966) promoted popular interest in the once-obscure field that he made his specialty; of lung cancer; in Kalk Bay, South Africa, where he had lived since 1978. Many of the plays (Thunder Rock, Shadow of Heroes) and movie scripts (Madame Bovary, Khartoum) that the Chicago-born Ardrey wrote, beginning in the 1930s, showed the fascination with man's roots that later led him into anthropology. It was his notion that man is a "risen ape" whose drive to acquire power, defend territory and make war is inherited, rather than a learned...
...ancient popular belief that has recurred throughout Islamic history. In the colonial era, several "Mahdis" announced themselves as liberators. Perhaps the most famous was the "Mahdi of the Sudan," Mohammed Ahmad ibn Abdullah, whose dervish troops killed General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon and the other defenders during the siege of Khartoum...
...ambassadors have been killed in the line of duty. In 1968 Ambassador to Guatemala John Gordon Mein was shot during a kidnaping attempt. Ambassador to the Sudan Cleo A. Noel Jr. was murdered in 1973, when members of the Palestinian Black September group seized the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum and took six diplomats hostage. The terrorists surrendered three days later, but not before killing Noel and two other hostages. In 1974, following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus Rodger Davies was shot to death during a Greek Cypriot attack on the American embassy in Nicosia. Earlier...