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...Sahara. Those in search of a lively dance band right here at Harvard might do well to try out a free concert by this eight-piece group featuring lots of brass and percussion, the usual guitars, bass, and piano, and a female lead singer. Some of these folks were members of at least one of Cambridge's better groups of the last few years. And surely, the price is right. Friday, March 15 at the Hotel Continental Ballroom, 8:30 p.m., free...
...Englishmen. A straight line leads from Sir Richard Burton crossing the Arabian desert in 1853 and Lawrence of Arabia down to Geoffrey Moorhouse. Burton had a simple thirst for the exotic. Lawrence was a complex mystic. Moorhouse, who left Nouakchott, Mauritania, in October of 1972 heading east into the Sahara, is a fortyish ex-journalist. In challenging the desert, he was intent on confronting his own fears and what he took to be personal cowardice...
...while U.S. corporations invest more money to bolster apartheid in South Africa than is invested in all other African countries south of the Sahara combined, the investment-hungry, market-poor black countries can only resent the pattern; they are hardly in a position to reverse it or entice a higher level of investment for themselves...
...States, the United Nations, Common Market countries and religious organizations have shipped "plenty of food, probably as much as is necessary" to the six stricken African nations. "The problem now is to reach the distant nomadic peoples who haven't been driven to the cities out of the sub-Sahara...
...There is a question as to whether the famine is the result of a six-or seven-year drought or a massive movement of the Sahara to the south due to overgrazing," Mayer added. He pointed out that from Roman times through the 12th century Libya had been irrigated and fertile. Poor agricultural practices led to Libya's present aridity, he said...