Word: madagascar
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What happens when student mobs riot for university reform? These days, the cops are usually called in, heads are broken, and the riot leaders are jailed. There was a somewhat different ending last week to a student uprising in the Malagasy Republic-the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar and its dependencies. The youthful rebels not only got the promise of reform, but also brought down the government...
Crisis has been brewing for a long time on Madagascar, a never-never land that is known to its citizens as "the island at the end of the world." Wages were low, prices were rising, and food was in short supply-so short that the government's planning minister, Barthelemy Johasy, complained that it was "scandalous and aberrant" to see "long queues of people waiting to buy rice in a rice-producing country...
...oceans will be dead before the end of the century. Cousteau, who speaks with the authority of numerous dives made in virtually all of the planet's deep waters, told Senator Ernest Rolling's subcommittee on oceans and atmosphere that even the remote reef off Madagascar is "frankly dead today." In a very few years, he added, "there will be nothing alive" in the deeper waters of the Black...
Even before Banda's trip, Black Africa's solidarity was not all that solid. Four small black states in southern Africa, as well as the island nations of Madagascar and Mauritius, now have formal diplomatic or trade links with Pretoria. The leaders of a few others, notably the Ivory Coast's President Felix Houphouët-Boigny, have advocated a "dialogue" with South Africa. Such talk is heard mostly in former French colonies and is quietly encouraged by Paris, which seeks African support for its own efforts to increase trade with Pretoria...
...pets, but I'm dead set against that sort of thing." Instead La Panouse started a send-them-back-alive project, concentrating on West Africa, which just happens to be short of lions. One cub went to Dakar and two to Mauretania, as well as another to Madagascar. In December, La Panouse plans to ship a pride of twelve to Senegal's Niokolo Koba National Park...