Word: libya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas. Its major regions are 1) French West Africa, whose eight provinces run from the tropical swamps of the Ivory Coast to the heart of the Sahara, are inhabited by nearly 19 million people who speak 120 languages; and 2) French Equatorial Africa, whose four provinces stretch from Libya in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the south, produce a major share of the world's plywood. Unlike Madagascar, whose 4,800,000 inhabitants launched a bloody revolt against France in 1947, Black Africa has just begun to emerge from Stone Age politics...
...persuade France to give Algeria complete independence. In return, Arab leaders in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco would form a Maghreb federation with some kind of link with France. Spain, because of its residual interest in Spanish Morocco, would also be invited to join the grouping, and so would Libya...
Crowning Edifice. Last week Libya's Premier Mustafa Ben Halim, visiting Tunis, signed an agreement with Bourguiba that looked to a day when their mutual borders would disappear. "An audacious step has been taken toward the building of a great, unified Maghreb," cried Bourguiba. "When Algeria has overcome her tribulations, the edifice will be crowned." He added a warning: "France is today faced with an alternative. On one hand, an endless war . . . on the other, the constitution of a North African community deeply unified and ready to cooperate...
Northward the steep world rises to Scythia And south of Libya descends, where black Styx and the lowest of the dead look...
Ireland Israel Italy Laos Lebanon Liberia Libya...