Word: sahara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rights man, believes the bill ought to go to the Judiciary Committee, headed by Mississippi Segregationist James O. Eastland, with instructions that it be returned in ten days. In Eastland's hands, a civil rights bill has the approximate survival quotient of a snowball in the Sahara: 121 such measures have been referred to the Judiciary Committee since 1953, and precisely one has found its way back to the Senate-and that only because there were specific orders that it be returned. Civil rights supporters feel that Eastland would send this one back, since he would have no choice...
...will be fought, for the time being, with boycotts and propaganda, and through such limited guerrilla-type actions as Holden Roberto's in Angola. There is, of course, the continuing struggle against Africa's whites in the corridors and debating rooms of the United Nations, where sub-Sahara's independent countries-fully 28% of the General Assembly-bring unrelenting pressure to bear...
...cost the French army hundreds of hands to put the Tuaregs in a kissing mood. The fierce, veiled warriors of the high Sahara gave up their murderous ways only in 1917, when they settled uneasily into a pastoral life as goat and camel herdsmen in the sere, sand-scoured mountains north of Timbuctoo. Last week in the Republic of Mali, some 5,000 Tuaregs decided the kissing had to stop. Holed up in the Adrar des Iforas, a parched, 40,000-sq.-mi. redoubt that straddles the Mali-Algerian border, they prepared to fight off half of Mali...
Moderation & Macaroni. The Iforas rebels represent only a fractious fraction of some 500,000 "blue men" who range the Sahara from Mauritania to Libya. Nominally white, they get their colorful name from the dark blue robes they wear. The robes are impregnated with a cheap dye that rubs off and stains the Tuaregs' skins a glossy, metallic blue. The Tuaregs seem to be related to the Phoenicians, write with an ancient alphabet called tifinagh that can be read from right to left, left to right, up or down. But they use it often to compose erotic poetry or scrawl...
French administrators tamed the Tuaregs only by treating them with moderation. In return for giving up their rez-zous-raids for slaves and plunder-and such practices as impaling thieves on spikes placed under their chins and armpits, the Tuaregs were permitted to roam the Sahara as if there were no boundaries. And the French always winked when the Tuaregs cheated on their cattle taxes...