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...Cell 54 of Qurah Maydan Prison. He remembered books he had absorbed, like Lloyd Douglas' The Magnificent Obsession and Jack London's The Sea Wolf. All dealt with the victory of the spirit over adversity. Even in prison, Sadat was a loner who kept silent, remembers Moussa Sabry, one of four inmates who escaped with Sadat from an earlier jailing. They crawled through a hole in the roof of the camp's rabbit hutch. Says Sabry: "Somehow Sadat made us hold the secret from the hundreds of prisoners...
...there are only two. Farmers are afraid to work their fields for fear they will step on an Israeli antipersonnel mine. At night, most of the villagers huddle inside the thick walls of St. George's Greek Orthodox Church for sanctuary. From St. George's terrace, Father Moussa Khoury points out the only glow visible in the valley below. It comes from Qiryat Shemona, the Israeli town 13 miles away. Looking at the silhouette of a giant oak tree near the terrace, Father Khoury reflects: "It's been here for a thousand years, they say. But then...
...students had only enough time to convert one granary, since their time was dominated by political considerations from the beginning. Their first week was spent in Bamako, Mali's capital, negotiating with the military government of Moussa Traore for aid in their work...
Saddled with the task of restoring at least a semblance of normality is the country's new leader, Moussa Traore, 32, an army lieutenant who graduated first in his class from France's Overseas Officers' School at Frejus some years ago. Under his direction, the National Liberation Committee has moved quickly to consolidate its rule. It ordered statues and portraits of the imposing Keita torn down, the Red Guard militia abolished. Free elections have been promised, and private enterprise has been invited into the country. Clearly, the new rulers of the former French colony were abandoning Keita...
Then began one of the most bizarre incidents in the U.N.'s often bizarre history. Moussa L. Keita of Mali, president during April of the 15-nation council, simply refused to call a meeting. In league with other Black African nations opposed to Ian Smith, Keita was trying to buy time, and to draw up some stiffer amendments calling for total mandatory sanctions that would be enforced mainly by the British. Growing more impatient by the hour, U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg met with British Representative Lord Caradon and delegates from nine other member nations, and the group staged...