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Together with Correspondent Edward Behr-who arrived in Algiers on the eve of the insurrection after a month-long motor expedition across the Sahara-White supplied this week's Foreign News section with its muscular narrative of Algiers at the barricades and its vivid portraits of the ex-law student, tough café owner and religious fanatic who have defied the power of Charles de Gaulle. Taken together with the intimate account of the heart searchings of De Gaulle's government supplied by Paris Correspondents Curtis Prendergast and Godfrey Blunden, the result is a comprehensive assessment...
...Africa. But the achievement was not complicated, as it is in British East and Central Africa, by deeply entrenched white settler populations. There the rising pressures for independence were giving the British a harder time. Britain's first Prime Minister ever to tour Africa south of the Sahara would find two key trouble spots...
...Industry Jean-Marcel Jeanneney and Justice Minister Edmond Michelet-had other ideas. To keep the French economy growing, they argued, the government must exercise more active control of business. They wanted to: ¶ Establish a government corporation, similar to Italy's state petroleum monopoly, to refine and market Sahara oil; ¶Adopt West Germany's"co-management" scheme-which would give France's heavily Communist unions seats on the board of directors of every important French company; ¶ Set up a government bank to make loans to ailing industries...
American communications media have been singularly inept or indifferent about covering this story in depth; the New York Times is the only newspaper with full-time correspondents south of the Sahara. Television has recently been making a significant effort on Africa: NBC-TV has covered the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and will soon cover Ghana; CBS-TV plans a feature on Nigeria next month. And while other universities have advanced understanding, Harvard has shared the general somnolence about Africa...
...mummy does not prove that there is a civilization buried in the Sahara but it does mean that, in the next few years, the desert will be swarming with anthropologists looking...