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...West African nation of Mali is noted for little save its peanuts, a pro-Communist political line, and a dusty town that bears the still vibrant name of Timbuctoo...
Last week little Mali established its sovereignty over 26 verdant acres of New York's Westchester County, near another historic spot of no economic significance: Washington Irving's Sleepy Hollow. To create a home that was never like home for its U.N. staff, Mali paid $300,000 for two mansions overlooking the Hudson at Tarrytown: Linden Court, with 19 bedrooms and ten baths, and Uplands, which has only seven bedrooms and six baths. Both were sold by the Biddle clan...
...MALI (F.) Pop.: 4,100,000. Size: 945,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 10%. School Attendance: 6%. College graduates: 100 plus. Outside Timbuctoo and other towns, population largely nomadic, 60% Moslem...
Exports: Peanuts, cotton, rice. Per capita income: $33. U.S. aid (1961): $2,500,000. Also aided by Reds. No industry; 1960 break with Senegal cut off Mali from its port. Signs of disillusion with Red barter deals. Syphilis rate 15%, as in most of ex-French Africa...
Exports: Palm products, peanuts. Per capita income: $40. U.S. aid (1961): $3,100,000. Heavily reliant on France, which is financing $20 million development program. Shaky government flirts with leftist Mali and Red Chinese but is antiCommunist...