Word: saharan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayor with a tricolor sash. As he went through these ceremonies, he was not only the minister in charge of two new French dèpartements (states) that together are three times the size of Texas. He was also the man most responsible for making France's "Saharan dream" come true. "It is here in this desert region," he told a crowd of Moslem patriarchs and young French technicians, "that the destiny of the French Republic will be settled...
...outside the city limits. But in Algiers' dark, conspiratorial bistros, the talk these days is more likely to be about "les affaires" than assassinations. De Gaulle has made the army his chief economic arm in raising Moslem living standards, and fat army contracts for roads and schools-plus Saharan oil investments-have spread a new prosperity across Algeria...
...every successful regrouped village there are at least three in which the Moslems are worse off than before. In some centers the villagers are resettled in tents ringed with barbed wire. Saharan nomads, used to constant roaming, waste away by the hundreds when cooped up in camps. The 400,000 Moslem refugees outside the regrouped camps drift into cities, and rapidly join the ragged, seldom-employed urban proletariat choking the slums...
...Assembly, the Algerian and Saharan representation is so large (67 members) that the mushy North African dish couscous has become a standard plat du jour in the Assembly restaurant. Deputies were eager to debate the progress of the costly, unsettled Algerian war. Imperiously, Premier Michel Debre declared that there would be no debate on foreign policy, at least before the Big Four foreign ministers' meeting next week, or on Algeria, and under De Gaulle's Fifth Republic constitution, which Lawyer Debre devised. Premier Debre had his way. Complained ex-Premier Robert Schuman: "I wonder if we Deputies have...
...development. In the French Sudan, the TVA-like Office du Niger, located in a tree-shaded and prosperous town that was once just a cluster of huts, has built a $21 million dam across the Niger River, on top of which lie the tracks for the still nonexistent Trans-Saharan Railroad (the railroad station is currently being used as an office building). The Office has reclaimed more than 108,000 acres of desert where cotton and rice can now grow, hopes eventually to have 2,000,000 acres under cultivation...