Word: regional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these ceremonies, he was not only the minister in charge of two new French dèpartements (states) that together are three times the size of Texas. He was also the man most responsible for making France's "Saharan dream" come true. "It is here in this desert region," he told a crowd of Moslem patriarchs and young French technicians, "that the destiny of the French Republic will be settled...
...families, so widely strewn that the magazine must eventually be carried, over months, by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Hudson's Bay traders, and dog sled; to reach Eskimos in Canada's Western north, Inuktitut will print a separate edition in the Roman characters familiar to that region. The magazine must go out in spring before the Arctic thaw, in summer after the river ice has melted, in fall before the freeze, and in winter before the curtain of the Arctic night...
...Sardauna is a direct descendant of the fabled Fulani Imam who in 1802 launched the holy war that eventually brought northern Nigeria to its knees. In 1900 the British proclaimed the region a protectorate. They ended the beheadings, the chopping off of hands and the slave trade, but they deliberately did not destroy the power of the emirs and the chiefs-under a characteristically empirical British policy known as "indirect rule." So it was not until 1956 that the Northern Region held its first direct elections to its Assembly, not until this year that its rulers finally got around...
...Some Say . . ." The Sardauna, on becoming Premier in 1954. launched a massive campaign against his region's almost total illiteracy. But he has never been particularly keen on upsetting too many traditions. "Some here say," explains the Sardauna, "that the chiefs must be set aside. But the great majority are not of that school." The Sardauna seems to have no desire to become federal Prime Minister himself, would apparently prefer to become a Sultan like his great-grandfather. He has already haughtily declared that he would leave the less lofty job of Nigeria's Prime Minister...
...different. They are caused by solar magnetic fields expanding suddenly into space and pushing ionized gas ahead of them. "It is a bit like a weather front," he explains. "Before, you are living in a very quiet zone. Suddenly a front sweeps over, and behind this front is a region of great disturbance and turbulence...