Word: madagascar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French general with eight police inspectors, 30 gendarmes and a section of paratroopers drew up in a hurry outside the Hotel des Thermes in Madagascar one day last week. They came not to try the golf course, to splash in the pool or to take the waters (which are said to be good for that old weakspot of Frenchmen, the liver). They came instead to see a splendidly installed prisoner, the exiled Sultan of Morocco, Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef. French General Georges Catroux, 78, found His Majesty waiting for him in a nearby villa once occupied by Aly Khan...
...Return the exiled Sultan ben Youssef from Madagascar to France...
Bundled into an airplane with his two wives and a favorite concubine, Ben Youssef was whisked off to exile, now lives in Madagascar in a hilltop hotel, where he daily complains of the cold. Uninspiring in office, Ben Youssef in exile has become a national martyr. Many simple Moroccans claim to see his face in the full moon...
...Medical Service Graduate School has recently had a team in Madagascar studying plague, while another worked on scrub typhus in North Borneo. Now the big push on scrub typhus is in Japan (where it becomes tsutsugamushi disease): medics from Walter Reed are at Zama studying the chiggers that transmit the disease, while Japanese artists draw them...
...electricity, plus plutonium. In 30 months' time a second, more profitable plant will go to work, with a net production of 20,000 kw. (enough electricity for a city the size of Tallahassee, Fla.)-Moreover, the French have found an "important source" of thorium in Madagascar, are studying nuclear propulsion for ships...