Word: madagascar
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...pledged himself to an enemy chief and became a slave so that his captive mother could be released. Like the Biblical Joseph, he rose to head the enemy tribe, fought the French until 1898 when he was captured. The French swarmed over French West and French Equatorial Africa and Madagascar-an area 14 times the size of France. But the legend lived on of the warrior Samory, whom Sekou Toure claims as his grandfather...
...section of the Houghton stacks. Old poster and playbills of Kean and Booth, the playbill for the Ford theater on the night of Lincoln's assassination, are some notable examples. One piece, P.T. Barnum's first advertisement, tells of his original sideshow: "Joice Heth . . . born on the island of Madagascar on the coast of Africa in 1674 who has now arrived at the astronomical age of 161 years...
...Freedom. Guinea was the only French African territory to vote no in September to De Gaulle's constitution. The French territories that voted yes are one by one declaring themselves republics, inside the French community. Following Madagascar, which made its choice in October, the French Sudan and Senegal led last week's parade. Next came a proclamation of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, in the land of the great Berber warriors who established the medieval Almoravide empire and built the fabled city of Marrakesh. Then to the east there followed tropical Gabon, the mineral-rich Republic of Congo...
...Excuse. In the end, Rozhestvensky produced a feat of logistics perhaps unequaled until World War II: an unbroken journey of 4,500 miles from Madagascar to the coast of Cochin China, despite 39 stops to repair tow lines, more than 70 engine breakdowns. And it was with oxlike fortitude that he brought his two wallowing columns into battle off Tsushima (literally Donkey's Ears Island). Maneuvering for position, Togo took his column through a perilous column turn and closed with nearly 500 guns blazing. The Russian ships, which had damaged three major enemy ships, failed to score a single...
Promise Kept. Relations between the two countries reached their lowest point in 1947, when the French ruthlessly put down a rebellion (estimates of rebel dead run from 10,000 to 80,000). They reached their highest point last year, when Madagascar elected its first territorial government, achieved a surprising degree of political stability under Philibert Tsiranana, 46, who became Madagascar's first Premier...