Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your May 20 article on "Middle Africa: Cradle of Tomorrow" is one of your finest. It is interesting, well written and beautifully illustrated. It provides a capsule course in the economic geography of a fascinating region...
...creating wealth, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf sheikdoms the economy that can absorb it. Iraq, alone of all Arab nations, has both, and on the wave of its oil royalties it has launched an ambitious program of economic development that is transforming the political balances of the region...
Burdened by as much of their shabby belongings as they could carry, some 2,000 peasants of Cuba's rebel-held Sierra Maestra region plodded down mountain tracks last week toward lowland towns in the eastern province of Oriente. Evacuated by army order, they left behind the makings of a jungle guerrilla war-to-the-fmish between troops of President Fulgencio Batista and rebels led by Fidel Castro...
...tourists and fewer novelists visit the Molise region, which stretches, a withered Achilles tendon, above the heel of the Italian peninsula. Novelist Giose Rimanelli, who was born in this doomed place, has produced a bitter fictional report centered on a village that hangs like an abandoned bird's nest on a waterless escarpment between the Apennine Mountains and the Adriatic. His story, in translation at least, is as stiff, ill-fitting and yet appropriate as a peasant's wedding suit...
...bandwagons going. Meanwhile, as spokesman for the proud and feudal Moslem emirs of the North, who want independence with no democratic folderol to go with it, the Sardauna let it be known that only a Northerner would be acceptable as Premier to the 17 million people of his region, who outnumber both other regions combined...