Word: northern
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...Hausa, official language of northern Nigeria, lingua franca and commercial language of western Africa, significant literature (some older) written in Arabic and Latin script...
...urged that both powers cease all nuclear testing for two or more years. If the Soviet Union insists on using nu clear explosives to divert a river in northern Russia as planned, Carter asked that U.S. experts be permitted to observe the project. The U.S., in turn, would allow Russians to watch any peaceful use of nuclear power for similar projects in the U.S., although none is planned. Apart from nuclear tests, Carter suggested that each side should notify the other in advance of any experimental missile launching. This would eliminate the danger that such a launching could be mistaken...
...Cecil B. DeMille," cracked one Western visitor, "eat your heart out!" For five hours last week, 20,000 dancers, 5,000 camel drivers and 3,500 horsemen gathered in the city of Kaduna for one of the biggest celebrations in the history of northern Nigeria. On hand to watch it were eight visiting heads of state; their Nigerian host, Lieut. General Olusegun Obasanjo; and Andrew Young, Washington's new U.N. ambassador. Concluding his African odyssey, Young reached Nigeria in time to catch the finale of the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture...
...threat of execution by her captors. At one point she was convinced that her country had abandoned her. But last week the long nightmare ended for French Archaeologist Françoise Claustre, 39. After 33 months as a political prisoner of rebel tribesmen in the remote Tibesti desert of northern Chad, Claustre was handed over, exhausted but unharmed, to French officials in Tripoli. Her rescuer: none other than Libya's mercurial leader, Muammar Gaddafi...
Serge Savard, a tall, black-haired defenseman who was raised in northern Quebec, says most of his French friends in and out of hockey are having second thoughts about Quebec independence. "I would say on the team nobody really supports it." Scotty Bowman-William Scott Bowman-the coach, is bilingual. In French and English, he is preoccupied with theories of hockey. "We're winning 80% of our games," he says. "It's almost frightening. We skate well, but I think we begin with defense. A fine goalie, good defense." The elections? "We won that night. We beat...