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...played so crucial a role in catapulting Charles de Gaulle to power, the post at first seemed rather an anticlimax. But from the moment he took it over in January, burly Jacques Soustelle, 47, has made the most of the Ministry of the Sahara. Last week, in the oasis town of Ouargla, he briskly inspected a 2O-acre terminal servicing the 25-ton trucks that haul pipe to the huge (500 million tons) oil strike at Hassi Messaoud. He checked over plans for a loo-room, air-conditioned hotel, invested the new mayor with a tricolor sash. As he went...
Today, there are 800,000 Asians in Africa south of the Sahara-Hindus (the majority), Sikhs, Ismaili and Shia Moslems, Parsees and Christians from Portuguese Goa. The fourth Aga Khan left his Harvard studies in 1957 to be installed not in Pakistan but in Africa, where his Ismaili followers once weighed his portly grandfather in diamonds. The shop signs of Dar es Salaam in Tanganyika are almost all Indian-V. B. Patel, the timber merchant; H. J. Peerani, the baker; Mohanlal, the tailor. In Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the Indians are called Banyans, and elsewhere whatever the African wants...
...Sigi is born at the height of the blitz). Nine years later she is still stitching rugs and, as her father (Ronald Squire) puts it, "getting a bit weedy." The Marquis of Valhubert has been 1) captured by the Germans, 2) interned by the Russians, 3) ordered to the Sahara, 4) transferred to Lake Chad, 5) shipped to Ceylon, 6) posted to Damascus, 7) rushed off to Dienbienphu...
...nationalist explosions frighten away foreign investment capital? U.S. firms that cannot wait for all the returns to come in are answering the question with cautious optimism. In December, New York's First National City Bank, the nation's third largest, established its second branch south of the Sahara, in Johannesburg. The huge Chase Manhattan Bank has followed suit. Vice Chairman David Rockefeller, 43, just back from a five-week African tour, expects to open up other branches in South Africa. "After that, we will be thinking about moving into the Rhodesias," he said, last week...
...provisional government, stepped forward. "We regret to declare." he announced, "that the provisional government of the Algerian Republic does not presently see any prospect for peace in Algeria." Yazid went on to warn off Standard Oil of New Jersey, which had just negotiated oil-exploration rights in the Algerian Sahara with the French. "Our people are not tied by deals concluded with the enemy." warned Yazid, "and consider them an act of hostility toward the Algerian people...