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...race for freedom in Africa, whites' concessions have seldom kept up with blacks' demands. The gap is perilously apparent in vast (150,000 sq. mi.) Southern Rhodesia, the only self-governing member of the troubled Central African Federation. The government has softened harsh apartheid rules and promised Africans a few seats in the legislature next year. But the blacks are not satisfied. They outnumber the whites 3,000,000 to 220,000, insist on "one man, one vote"−now. Since mid-July, they have pushed their cause by attacking police patrols, stoning motorists, cutting telephone lines...
Ambitions & Tensions. The nature of his ecclesiastical position and the history of his tiny country (4,015 sq. mi., 1,600,000 pop.) necessarily make Patriarch Meouchi a political figure. A proud mountain people who preserved their Christian faith through centuries of Arab persecution, the Maronites regard the patriarchy as a symbol of their national ambitions...
Blandly the Chinese said that they were willing to arbitrate the boundary dispute peacefully. But it would be on their own terms. China rejected India's demand that before the start of negotiations it withdraw from the 14,000 sq. mi. of Indian territory it occupies in Ladakh (see map). "No force in the world could oblige us to withdraw," said Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi. The effect of the Chinese announcement was thus to tell India that any final settlement must irrevocably deed the disputed Ladakh territory to China...
...SOMALIA (Br. & Italian) Pop.: 2,000,000. Size: 246,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 10%. School attendance: Under 5%. College graduates: 100. Moslems: nearly 100%. Nomadic peoples are mostly illiterate. British and Italians educated small cadre to take over government. Few savage customs...
...MALAGASY REPUBLIC (F.) Pop.: 5,487,000. Size: 227,800 sq. mi. Literacy: 20%. School attendance: 50%. Graduates: 150 plus. Christians: 20%. Nation (formerly Madagascar) boasts old civilization; 10,000 were literate in 1835. Africans in remote uplands practice savage rites...