Word: ouagadougou
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...adding some news and even more trivia, and the four new typographically wretched strike papers are throbbing with wire-service copy that the regular dailies would have spurned. But for New Yorkers used to the Daily News's outrageously witty headlines, the Times's impeccably orotund dispatches from Ouagadougou and Timbuktu and the Post's wonderfully inaccurate gossip, there is an aching void. "They're like children," says Political Consultant David Garth of the three struck dailies. "You don't know how much you love them until they leave home...
...miles) to gather it and bring it home; in Niger, wood is so expensive that a laborer must spend nearly a quarter of his income on fuel. Elsewhere, the search for firewood is helping to create new deserts. Almost all the trees within 70 kilometers (44 miles) of Ouagadougou in Upper Volta have already been consumed as fuel by the city's inhabitants. Now the circle of naked land is expanding...
Israeli officials caustically observed that the Saudis had only itemized how 15% of the $1 billion would actually be spent; it would be a cold day in Ouagadougou, they suggested, before the Africans would see the rest of the Saudis' money. Perhaps so. But black African leaders enthusiastically accepted the offers at face value and in turn pledged their renewed commitment to the Arabs' diplomatic campaign against Israel. The conference also enhanced the sense of identity between the two regions. Said Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda: "We are the product of the same struggle against domination and exploitation...
...little to do over the past three years beyond eating canapes and trying to keep their tempers while their Communist counterparts gleefully played to the grandstands. "For the first time anyone could remember," says one U.S. delegate, "Foreign Service types in Paris were requesting reassignment to places like Ouagadougou, where at least there was something happening...
...defeat (on the grounds that victory needs no diplomatic skill but defeat does), and whose tribal tradition demanded that he titularly declare war on the neighboring Soussou tribe every Wednesday morning and allow himself to be "persuaded" by tribal elders to postpone the expedition; after a short illness; in Ouagadougou, French West Africa...