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Though it is twice the size of Texas West Africa's arid, landlocked Mali Republic (pop. 3,700,000) has little claim to fame beyond being the place where Timbuctoo is. Last week the news from Timbuctoo, now a crumbling mud village on the edge of the Sahara, was that the Russians would soon be there...
Ferhat Abbas was particularly impressed by Bourguiba's account of De Gaulle's position on the Sahara, which the F.L.N. fears France intends to keep. "It is not French sovereignty which is important," De Gaulle had said. "What mat ters is that France should have access to Saharan oil rather than pay for its oil in dollars." The joint communique of the three leaders contained the F.L.N. acceptance of De Gaulle...
...recent times, he has acquired both a wife and a surrogate father. Playing Las Vegas' Sahara Hotel with Comedian George Burns two years ago, he began a close and uncharacteristically warm relationship, soaking up Burns's pithy advice and practical philosophy. Then last summer, on the location of a film they made together in Italy, he first saw the fluorescent tresses of 18-year-old Actress Sandra Dee. They were married in December, and now live in Hollywood. Before he left New York, Darin vowed that he would not return professionally to his home city until he could...
Mindful that the French had set off an atomic blast in the Sahara a year ago, Dr. Kettlewell last spring collected early-arriving migratory moths and examined them under a Geiger counter. One specimen of Nomophila noctuella, a pale buff moth with a one-inch wingspread, showed a suspiciously high count. He pressed it on X-ray film and found that the radiation was coming not from the moth as a whole but from a single small spot in the thorax...
...that is formed by the billions when the fireball of a nuclear explosion touches and melts the surface of the earth. The sphere's age, measured by careful study of its radioactive decay, proved that it must be part of the fallout of the February test in the Sahara. Since the sphere was too big to hover in the air very long or drift very far, Dr. Kettlewell believes that his little moth acquired its radioactive particle before leaving Africa, carried it 1,500 miles to England...