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Last summer, when 6-ft. 3-in. Mali President Modibo Keita returned to his capital of Bamako from a month-long visit to the Soviet Union, he told dignitaries at the airport: "Look, Modibo is back. There has been no coup, as certain foreign sources predicted there would be. I tell you, there will never be a coup in Mali." Last week Keita, 53, was cruising down the Niger River on the presidential yacht, General Soumare. By the time he got back to Bamako, he was out of a job, the victim of a quick and bloodless coup organized...
India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ire land, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, South Korea, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Luxembourg, Malagasy Republic, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines...
...last two years, UNESCO has concerned itself closely with the problems of wiping out illiteracy. A 1965 Teheran Conference marked the start of a six country project. The six countries-- Iran, Mali, Algeria, Ecuador, Guinea, and Tanzania--were chosen from the 50 applicants for their "readiness": they all more or less had successful literacy programs under way already; and the governments were willing to apportion a good deal of energy--and money (60 per cent of cost)--to the program...
...does not pretend it will alphabetize the country. This is the "lightening" approach. More than anything, it aims at developing the most effective ways of teaching illiterates. The language problem enormously complicates the task. In Tanzania, most of the tribes speak or understand Swahili, a written language, but in Mali the predominant language, Bambara, has not yet been transcribed. Also, there are strong arguments for teaching people to read in either English or French, since few bags of fertilizer come with instructions in Bambara...
...that no doubt will figure in his campaign emerged last week when the International Olympic Committee agreed to reinstate South Africa in the 1968 Olympics, after having banned it from Tokyo in 1964. The South Africans now promise to field a completely integrated team. Nevertheless, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Algeria, Uganda, Mali and Ghana immediately announced their withdrawal from the Games...