Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political parties: 9. Voters: † 85%. Nigerians lead all other African peoples in basic comprehension of self-government, particularly where British ruled indirectly through tribal authorities and democratically elected councils. Political campaigns are fierce but free. In Northern Region, voting restricted to males...
...GABON (F.) Pop.: 440,000. Size: 103,089 sq. mi. Literacy: 6%. School attendance: 80%. Graduates: Under 10. Christians: 40%. Coastal region civilized; cannibalism, female circumcision still common...
...happens that the audience in this area is one of the best of any region in the United States. Many of the forty-five films that Janus distributes have done exceptionally well in Cambridge even though their careers throughout the United States have been little short of disastrous (e.g. ASHES AND DIAMONDS, IVAN THE TERRIBLE...
...rivals were facing new complications. From Algiers, word came that Benkhedda was finished, and that his future role-no matter what his title-could only be a subordinate one. But the anti-Ben Bella cause is still being upheld by hard-bitten Belkacem Krim, who effectively controls the mountainous region of Kabylia, and by subtle, self-educated Mohammed Boudiaf, 40, who spent most of the war in a French prison with Mohammed ben Bella and grew to mistrust...
...Moscow region, speculators welcomed the government's recent 30% price raise in the cost of meat. One result that astonished the authorities was that villagers began buying enormous quantities of bread, whose price had remained unchanged. In a typical village, bread sales in state stores abruptly rose to eleven tons a day, or well over 3 lbs. per capita for the 6,500 inhabitants. Investigators soon discovered that cheap bread was being converted into expensive meat by the simple process of feeding loaves to pigs, cattle and poultry...