Word: sahara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shadowless reaches of the Spanish Sahara, some 40 miles from the Atlantic Coast, the dusty oasis of Bu-Craa swelters in the middle of a moonscape of endless dunes and burned-out scrub. It is an ancient cross roads for camel caravans and fierce des ert nomads in their swirling burnooses. For years, Spanish Foreign Legionnaires in their whitewashed forts knew Bu-Craa as a lonely corner of the end of the world...
...soon as Spanish geologists found the rich phosphate vein back in 1963, Generalissimo Franco's ministers forbade publication of any hint of the discovery. They had good reason for their reticence. The political situation in northern Africa has long been touchy: both Morocco and Mauritania claim the Spanish Sahara. Occasionally, they have gone so far as to threaten to back up their claims with force. Moreover, Spain has been under mounting pressure in the U.N. to give up its African possessions. So there was little point in making the Sahara suddenly sound attractive...
...Spanish-American undertaking, with 45% going to the U.S. partner. But last March, when Madrid decided to strengthen its bid for a link with the Common Market, it seemed a good idea for Spain to show itself as Europe-oriented by offering Common Market companies a piece of the Sahara bonanza. That piece, of course, was to come out of the American share. I.M.C. was first to guess what was going on. Boldly, it lowered its demand for 45% participation...
...worried about raising the $160 million needed as an initial investment. The long-term investment to bring production up from 3,000,000 tons of phosphate in 1970 to 10 to 12 million tons by 1976 could go as high as half a billion dollars. By that time the Sahara phosphate venture should be a going operation, generating a handsome profit to be plowed back into further expansion...
...feed on baited venison beneath a battery of floodlights. In the "other Africa"-to the north-the scenes and the accommodations are considerably different. Algeria has fallen far behind in tourist facilities. But in Morocco, there are hundreds of miles of beaches in the Blue Country, where the Sahara Desert touches the Atlantic and the sun shines at least 300 days a year. The capital city of Rabat now has a luxurious new Hilton Hotel (up to $18 a day), a swinging night life, and a high-powered crowd of jet-set visitors, who include Princess Lee Radziwill, Mick Jagger...