Word: lix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local people, from college professors to taxi drivers; intuitive pursuits of whatever his Western intellect perceives as bizarre. Naipaul is most unsettled by a visit to Yamoussoukro, a stupefying modern city being constructed in the remote jungle around the tribal village of the country's President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. An artificial lake has been dug beside the walls of the leader's imposing palace, and crocodiles have been introduced; every afternoon, presidential assistants feed these creatures raw meat and a live chicken. Why? Naipaul wonders over and over again. His informants cannot enlighten...
...spite of the current setbacks, Abidjan's skyline remains a tribute to the prosperity that has been generated under French-educated President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 78, who has ruled the country since it became independent from France in 1960. With its sleek office towers dominated by the elliptical 30-story post office building, the modular Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie and the new Abidjan Hilton, the city's profile is reminiscent of Florida's Epcot Center. Traffic across the Pont Général De Gaulle bustles every...
...Libyan border. On Libyan maps, the zone is known as Southern Libya. It was Tripoli's annexation of the strip that led to the original split between Habré and Oueddei, both northern Muslims who had been allied against the southern Christian government headed by General Félix Malloum. Habré, who had previously received arms from Gadaffi, resisted the Libyan incursion, while Oueddei became Gadaffi's new favorite. Even that relationship has been severely strained at times. In 1979, when Oueddei protested against further Libyan encroachments on his country's territory, Gadaffi placed him briefly...
...snowy folds of Mont Blanc looking like a necklace of chocolate chips dropped into a vanilla sundae. Meanwhile, journalistic history is displayed in a set of pictures and captions from the first interview ever recorded (in 1886) for both eye and ear. The cameramen-interviewers are Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, who worked under the single professional name Nadar, and his son Paul. Their subject is Michel-Eugène Chevreul, an elderly scientist and expert on the theory of color mixing. Visible in some frames: a tubular machine that recorded Chevreul's words to be set alongside...
Armed largely by Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the northern-based Muslim guerrillas had succeeded last March in ousting President Félix Malloum, one of the southern Christians who have monopolized the government since Chad received its independence from France in 1960. Muslim Leaders Oueddei and Habré have since shared power in an eleven-faction alliance marked by mutual suspicion and hostility...