Word: mauritania
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Herman the Hormone. As a careerist who rose from the lowest echelons of the service to become U.S. Ambassador to Mali, Senegal, and finally Mauritania, Villard reserves his greatest scorn for the political appointee, the "manufacturer of kazoos from Peoria," who gets the choicest embassies for the fattest campaign contributions...
...radical hardcore-Ghana, Guinea, Algeria, Mali and Egypt-18 of the continent's 35 nations had signed the complaint. The signatories included the tiny leftist kingdom of Burundi, where Chinese influence is strong, and backwater states that once belonged to France: Central African Republic, Brazzaville Congo, Dahomey, Mauritania and Mali. Also on the list, however, were normally more moderate Ethiopia and the Sudan, and the Commonwealth nations of Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, of which better things should have been expected...
Moderation & Macaroni. The Iforas rebels represent only a fractious fraction of some 500,000 "blue men" who range the Sahara from Mauritania to Libya. Nominally white, they get their colorful name from the dark blue robes they wear. The robes are impregnated with a cheap dye that rubs off and stains the Tuaregs' skins a glossy, metallic blue. The Tuaregs seem to be related to the Phoenicians, write with an ancient alphabet called tifinagh that can be read from right to left, left to right, up or down. But they use it often to compose erotic poetry or scrawl...
With help from the World Bank, de Rothschild Freres created another consortium that has put up $166 million to exhume a rich iron lode in Mauritania. Among other companies that the Rothschilds control, Pefiarroya in Chile mines 7% of the free world's lead, and Le Nickel in New Caledonia produces 10% of the world's nickel. Under Guy, the Rothschilds have also built France's biggest private uranium mining company, which supplies some of the raw material for De Gaulle's force de frappe. And it was de Rothschild Freres that drafted the plan...
However, even though there turned out to be gold (and iron) in Mauritania's sands, it has become increasingly plain that Morocco's pragmatic young King Hassan II does not share his father's fervent faith in a "Greater Morocco" and realizes, in any case, that its big neighbor is here to stay. Moreover, the King now has sufficient political strength to resist pressure from the nationalist Istiqlal Party, most dogged advocate of Mauritania's annexation. Last month, he decided to repatriate four prominent Mauritanian exiles who had been leading the campaign against their country, from...