Word: sahara
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...south, the F.L.N. was negotiating with the left-leaning government of newly independent Mali to give them a base for hit-and-run raids against French communication lines in the Sahara...
Under these circumstances, and despite the temptation to win friends in the Assembly, the U.S. must help de Gaulle in the coming debate. Opponents of France will cry colonialism; France can point out that it has freed 13 new states south of the Sahara. Parallels will be drawn with the Congo crisis, in which the UN could display a remarkable capacity to act; but the complexities of France's entanglement with Algeria preclude any solution along the lines suggested by the Congo...
Predicting a revolution in the Union of South Africa within the next ten years, Spiro called the country "the only place south of the Sahara where things really look gloomy." He doubted whether the Afrikaners would ever voluntarily renounce apartheid...
...Bailey, 69, only daughter of the fifth Baron Rossmore and widow of South African Mining Magnate Sir Abe Bailey, a dauntless aviatrix who, after learning to fly in 1926, soon set an altitude record for light planes, subsequently survived at least three forced landings-in Russia, Tanganyika and the Sahara-to ferry World War II craft for the R.A.F. at age 50; of cancer; in Cape Town, South Africa...
...same time, wildcatters made their first major oil strikes in the Sahara. The big oil companies landed in Algiers, soon followed by dozens of smaller repair shops, equipped specialists and transport firms...