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...largely responsible for organizing Hassan's successful referendum, there were those who thought Hassan was a bit ungrateful. But Istiqlal leaders were pressing for close economic and diplomatic ties with Cairo, based on a common Islamic heritage, and demanding that Hassan pursue Morocco's claims to Spanish Sahara, Mauritania and part of Algeria's Sahara. Refusing to salaam to Gamal Abdel Nasser, King Hassan resisted, arguing that the nation's future lies less with the Arab world than with France and Europe's Common Market. He also opposed the nationalists' agitation on the border...
Theoretically there is no limit to the size of an artificial lake. Says Palco President John M. Blatt: "We could line the Sahara if someone would pay for it." Lakemaker Blatt sees an enormous future for man-made recreational lakes. "Even in Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico, every town now can have its own lake for swimming, fishing and boating." he says. "This will create a new market for boatmakers and make life more pleasant for arid-zone aquatic-sports fans, many of whom now travel hundreds of miles just...
...week voted for their nation's first Parliament. In the big coastal cities, a few of the 200,000 Europeans still remaining in Algeria lined up with turbaned Arabs. In the rugged Aurès Mountains, blond and blue-eyed Berbers gathered at the polling places. In the Sahara, "the veiled men in blue" of the Tuareg tribes and the secretive Mozabites cast their ballots beneath the feathery palms of remote oases...
Auger-tongued H. L. Mencken once described vast stretches of the U.S. as a "Sahara of the Bozart." In those days, grand opera companies or symphony orchestras seldom ventured outside a dozen or so of the largest cities; public art museums, if they existed at all, were usually ill-lit annexes to the local fossil and arrowhead collection. The theater meant Broadway, and the road companies that once trouped every town hall in the land had long since bowed to the onslaughts of celluloid and popcorn...
TIME here surveys 24 independent new states and three near-independent territories below the Sahara-where statistics hardly exist. Nonetheless, what data can be gathered illustrate a battle far bigger than the fight for independence: a battle to establish a minimum of order, education and material wellbeing...