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...country...It may not yet seem a major world crisis but it is," and his message was echoed throughout the session. Angola is important because it represents the organized heart of resistance to American plans to colonize along capitalist lines the countries and resources of Africa south of the Sahara. It is the "type of struggle," Gervasi said, "that will occur until Western nations realize how the world is changing...
Catch 22, Friday and Saturday, January 16 and 17, 7 and 11:15 p.m., Sunday, January 18, 7 p.m. only; Sahara, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, January...
...began and the family ended." She returns to the town in the flat English Midlands where her father grew up and where she spent school vacations, trying to unearth her past in the same way that she had discovered the ancient city of Tizouk in the middle of the Sahara. What she finds is pretty grim...
Combat Alert. And by week's end it seemed that it had. Madrid announced that it would complete a phased withdrawal of Spanish troops from the Sahara by Feb. 28, 1976 and share its administration of the territory until then with Morocco and Mauritania. The agreement also stipulates that the Sahara's 70,000 tribesmen be "consulted" about their future. But the accord in effect will allow Morocco and Mauritania to partition the territory between them...
...problem remains: Algeria, which threatened to go to war over Morocco's annexation attempt, still opposes any settlement that is not based on a United Nations referendum. Algerian army units have been placed on combat alert near the Sahara border, and the Polisario, an Algerian-backed Saharan liberation group, says its guerrillas are ready to move into any vacuum created by the withdrawal of Spanish forces...