Word: sahara
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...made documentary that pursues its righteous ends with unseemly gusto. It begins in almost Biblical solemnity, citing the U.N. declaration that "slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms." Next, Novelist Robin Maugham, nephew of Somerset, reports that he himself bought a slave in the Sahara for $105 and set him free. And who is to blame for the traffic in human beings in Africa and the Middle East? Who else but the U.S., which, Maugham says, cares only for her "vast oil interests. Britain does nothing because she does not want to offend Washington...
Four years ago, after French consortiums began pumping a treasure of oil from under the desert sands, Charles de Gaulle proudly prophesied: "France may have found a new destiny in the Sahara." Last week that destiny seemed to be taking a turn scarcely envisioned by De Gaulle. To his sequestered Elysee Palace in Paris, he summoned a coterie of advisers to help him figure out the next move in the sticky negotiations that France has been holding for a year with her former foe, Algeria. Subject of the negotiations: the perilous future of French oil concessions in the Sahara...
...account for a quarter of the world's petroleum output. But as the sheiks grab bigger and bigger slices of oil revenues, producers have been busy developing alternative resources closer to the oil-hungry European market. The big gest of these now lie in the Algerian and Libyan Sahara, where drilling rigs, tank farms and smoke-plumed refiner ies give a modern industrial look to the ancient face of the desert...
...French soldiers who opposed him during Algeria's war of independence, Colonel Mohammed Chaabani was "the seigneur of the sands." A tough, canny guerrilla leader, he dominated a sere swatch of the Sahara and the rugged Aurès Mountains of northeastern Algeria. After independence, Chaabani joined Premier Ahmed ben Bella's Politburo and the army's general staff, but quickly grew restive under Ben Bella's heavy-handed Marxist dictatorship. Last June that uneasiness boiled over into open rebellion, and Chaabani took to the hills with a hard core of his veteran troops...
...doesn't. To match the men she would have to act; she can't. But then Garbo herself couldn't save this film from its script, which after Carroll's arrival takes one trite turn after another. And that's a shame. Before Sahara lapses into sex it really has sand...