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TIME'S Aug. 17 cover story on the Sahara is an enlightening and timely article. With the public support of the U.S., France could quell more quickly the fanatical, marauding minority in Algeria, and could concentrate on opening the riches of Algeria's Sahara for the entire population's, and the world's, benefit...
Ancient Battlegrounds. From the Caspian Sea to the border of China, Soviet Central Asia is a region as big as India, half as big as the U.S. Mountain ranges, deserts as bone-dry as the Sahara, and interminable wastes of grassy steppes make it one of the earth's most inhospitable areas. But from this Eurasian heartland came Aryans to populate the West, and across its pink sands marched generations of world conquerors. In 329 B.C. Alexander the Great sacked Samarkand ("Place of Sugars"), a city already centuries old. Rebuilt, Samarkand became one of the central depots...
...bomb in the Sahara. Largely because of France's own attitude, it found itself surrounded by hostility...
...their own. So Bing Crosby's four sons-Gary, 26, twins Dennis and Phil, 25, and Lindsay, 21-put together a family-style act of songs and smart-aleck chatter and started right at the top of the nightclub circuit. The Crosby boys blew into Las Vegas' Sahara nightclub last month, after three successful weeks at Chicago's Chez Paree, on the greatest burst of friendly publicity they have known since they started collecting drunken-driving citations and showgirls some five years...
...good to last. Soon the cracks about "Kathy Grant's husband" began to sound less like jokes than angry jeers. By week's end most of the Sahara crowd were coming around, not to laugh but to learn more about the Crosby clan's squabbles. Gary, the boss of the troupe, made sure no one was disappointed. "My father and I," he told a reporter, "just don't get along any more. Dad did some things last Christmas that I felt were far from right...