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...Algiers "press conference" with 250 visiting Communist journalists: "The agreements of Evian are not the Koran for us. It will be necessary to revise and readjust them in regard to our socialist objectives." Furthermore, he warned, if France sets off any new nuclear explosions in its Algerian Sahara testing grounds, there will be "an acceleration of our socialism...
...lover on the phone. He is about to marry someone else and she is desolate. Intimate, anguished, yearning, tender, this is a portrait of a woman desperately trying to breathe life into a dead love. As one critic put it, "Had the piece been played in the barren Sahara, the dunes would have moved closer to listen...
...Desert. "Why don't they just hold this tournament in the Sahara Desert?" groused one pro, when the temperature on the 7,046-yd. Dallas Athletic Club course soared to 110°. Three golfers quit midway through the second round because of heat exhaustion. Arnold Palmer shot a first-round 74, and moaned that he could not putt on the club's "awful" greens. Australia's Bruce Crampton complained bitterly about the noise of Palmer's gallery, "standing around chewing sandwiches." South Africa's tense Gary Player, the defending P.G.A. champion, never got within seven...
Compared to Mount Everest, the Sahara is a sultan's garden and the Amazon jungle is a farmer's meadow. At its summit, the highest point on earth, 29,028 ft. above sea level, spores have trouble surviving. The hardiest of mountain creatures-the snow leopard, the lammergeier vulture-stay clear of its bitter cold (down to -50°F.) and raging gales (up to 150 m.p.h.), and even the Abominable Snowman-whatever he is-confines his ambulations to the Tibetan plateau, 12,000 ft. below. Transported suddenly to its upper ridges, without an oxygen mask, a healthy...
When Mauritania won its independence in 1960, sovereignty and sand were about all it had. Sprawled across the lower Sahara on Africa's Atlantic hump, the arid nation is twice the size of France but has only 800,000 people and an average per-capita income of less than $80 yearly. Nonetheless, since 1956 Morocco has been struggling to annex "the stolen sands of Mauritania," which it claims were illegally taken from colonial Morocco by French Army surveyors. Under the late King Mohammed V, a "Moroccan Liberation Army" even tried to "free" Mauritania; with support from Russia, Morocco managed...