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...emphasis is on technical assistance in agronomy, water and soil development, highway planning, port development, fish breeding, sewage disposal, nutrition and handicrafts. Israeli experts have established citrus plantations in Madagascar and Uganda, a steamship line and a 16,000-acre cattle ranch in Ghana, a beekeeping industry in Senegal and massive poultry farms in Zambia and the Congo. In Togo, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Ghana, the Israelis have shown fascinated governments how to operate national lotteries...
People of the Book. One spin-off from the programs is a broader African market for Israeli products. Exports to Africa have risen in a decade from $11 million to $40 million. There is also added opportunity for private ventures. The Parliament of Madagascar last year voted to allow an Israeli company to explore for oil, the first such opportunity anywhere on the continent for Israel. Israelis are also building a new highway linking Ethiopia and Kenya and have just completed a 15-story office building that is Nairobi's tallest...
...complex including hotels, marina, animal park, convention hall and housing area for 60,000 that by 1980 will transform a 10,000-acre jungled seaside strip south of Abidjan into "the African Riviera" (TIME, March 15). Mayer says he has invitations from 20 other African nations, including Kenya and Madagascar, to build similar tourist centers or hotels. Architect and City Planner Thomas Leitersdorf has planned new housing and roads for the Riviera project in such a fashion as to provide a gentle transition to urban life for the 7,000 Ebrie tribesmen who now live in overcrowded farming villages nearby...
...Gimbel, department-store-heir-turned-adventurer, in the last unexplored regions of the earth. The chronicler is a fine natural historian, but at times his subject makes any words inadequate. In Blue Water, White Death, it is the camera that achieves what prose approximates. In the waters of Ceylon, Madagascar and the Mozambique Channel, and in the intemperate shoals off South Africa, a group of unarmed hunters seek an acquaintance with the great white shark. The fish-twice as tall as a man, heavier than a ton-is no ordinary killer. One 18th century writer reported that "in the belly...
Such is life in Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island, where the phrase "Nothing ever happens around here" is not a complaint but an expression of supreme satisfaction. A French version of Shangrila, Madagascar was a French colony for 73 years, and the 40,000 Frenchmen who remain have seen to it that French food, fashions and pharmacies are almost everywhere. For all that, no one would mistake Madagascar for France. Director of Information Flavien Renaivo describes it as "L'lle-au-Bout-du-Monde" (The Island at the End of the World). Though it lies...