Word: mogadishu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blue and white DC-7 skimmed clear of the sand dunes surrounding Somalia's primitive Mogadishu Airport, then wheeled out over the Indian Ocean toward Asia. In his chartered KLM air liner, Red China's Premier Chou Enlai, his hard face lined and bloodless, watched Africa drop behind him. In the course of his 53-day safari, he had toured ten nations, ranging from so traditional a monarchy as Morocco to so Red-hot a republic as Ghana, with time out for a side trip to Albania...
...clock on a hot, equatorial night, and the locals were living it up outside Passoni's Grocery Store on the potholed main drag of Mogadishu, capital of Somalia. Italian Settler Passoni, an enterprising sort, was raffling off boxes of groceries. Suddenly, a news bulletin from neighboring Kenya blared from a radio in a bar next door. An instant later, the guttural twitter that is the Somali tongue became an ominous muttering, and the crowd of 500 was on the rampage. Stoning cars, the Somalis marched to the British embassy, touching off three days of shouting, window-smashing riots...
Spearing the Commissioner. No Somali saw it that way. Mobs surging through Mogadishu's heat (100° plus) had to be broken up by mounted police swinging long batons; before the disturbance was quelled, some 500 people were arrested. In Hargeisa, the onetime capital of British Somaliland, crowds stoned British homes and cars, attacked the British consulate. Presumably because of Britain's close ties to the U.S., newly arrived U.S. Ambassador Horace Torbert was stoned out of the town of Galcaio, his Land-Rover narrowly outdistancing a mob of 1,000 men, women and children. In Kenya itself...
...Ellender has a habit of saying what he thinks-and what he says does not often contribute to international amity. While visiting Korea in 1956, for example, Ellender announced that the South Koreans, then considered good U.S. allies, were nothing better than "bloodsuckers." He found the public market in Mogadishu, Somalia "untidy," but nothing as compared with the "filth" of those in Addis Ababa. He noted that in Nepal "the streets were filled with people. Apparently the citizens do not work very much...
Aden Abdullah's main job will simply be to keep the country afloat, a task that the World Bank estimates will take $6,000,000 a year in outside aid. Yet to the new officialdom, optimism came easy last week in the sidewalk espresso shops of sun-scorched Mogadishu, the capital and only major city, where the hot monsoon sometimes blows hard enough to whip off the tablecloths. Construction was being rushed on two jerry-built but air-conditioned hotels. And like tribalists all over Africa, Somalis were talking ambitiously of redrawing the borders imposed by the white...