Word: sahara
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...African states in or near the Sahara are equally parched and devastated-Senegal, Mauretania, Mali, Niger, Upper Volta and Chad. Weakened by starvation, many black and Arab tribesmen face death from epidemics of cholera and measles...
Water wells are miles apart. Under the blistering sun, the temperature of the sand often reaches 180° F. Despite these forbidding conditions, foreigners have lately been scurrying in and out of the West African republic of Mauritania, at the western end of the Sahara -hiring the few available trucks, renting plots of land and even booking rooms in an old French Foreign Legion post. Told that the strangers are there to watch the moon black out the sun, some believers in the oasis town of Chinguetti-the seventh holiest city of Islam-are incredulous. "How can you tell...
GUND HALL: 7:00 Project Gasbuggy, 7:15 Newsparade of 1937, 7:25 Buster Keaton in Coney Island, 7:45 Gerald McBoing Boing, 7:55 Bambi Meets Godzilla, 8:00 Humphrey Bogart in Sahara, 9:37 This is War...? with the Marx Brothers, 9:47 Pas de Deux, 10:07 Gertie the Dinosaur, 10:07 Humphrey Bogart in Sahara...
...have denuded millions of acres of savanna. In order to feed their animals, herdsmen cut off the tops of trees, halting their growth. Weather experts believe that this systematic stripping of land has altered the climate and brought about an unmistakable decline in the rainfall. As a result, the Sahara is spreading south at a rate of more than half a mile each year...
Gaddafi also spends millions of dollars to buy the allegiance of countries in sub-Sahara Africa, particularly those with large Moslem populations; in the past year, at least partly because of Gaddafi's largesse, Uganda, Mali, Chad, Niger and Congo-Brazzaville have all broken diplomatic relations with Israel. Gaddafi even lent $3,000,000 to the U.S. Black Muslims, but he refused further loans because he decided that the group was not truly Islamic. He receives dozens of appeals for foreign aid each year, says Gaddafi, and he judges them all on two criteria: Will the loan help Islam...