Word: saharan
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...journey was exhausting, the accommodations were wretched and furious sandstorms periodically lashed the seemingly endless rows of tents. Yet hundreds of thousands of banner-waving, Koran-thumping volunteers last week continued to swarm into Morocco's southernmost town, Tarfaya. "So many people want to volunteer for the Saharan march that application forms are being sold on the black market," said one sheik who had traveled from the east-central province of Ksar es Souk. While awaiting orders to cross the Spanish Saharan border 21 miles to the south -the "go" signal may be given this week -bejeweled women...
...reportedly agreed last week to recognize Morocco's claim to the territory. Such an agreement may be challenged, perhaps even militarily, by Algeria, which has backed a leftist liberation movement in the Sahara. Although the marchers' objective may well be gained before they ever set foot on Saharan soil, Hassan said last week that he would be hesitant to call off the crusade. "I do not want to frustrate my subjects," he explained, "because a people...
Morocco, said the World Court, had had "certain legal ties" to Saharan tribes before Spain took over the region in 1884, but had not established "territorial sovereignty." Keenly disappointed, Morocco showed no intention of acquiescing in the ruling, and at week's end its troops were massed along a 140-mile border with the Spanish Sahara. Morocco's King Hassan II vowed to send 350,000 people, including 30,000 women-armed only with the Koran-to "liberate" the territory. Meanwhile, Spain, which still has control, warned that its troops in the Sahara, estimated...
Spain, for its part, recognized back in the early '60s that it would have to give up the region some day; like Algeria, it also favors self-determination for the Sahara. Whatever the eventual political coloration of a Saharan regime, Madrid figures, it would probably still want the revenue the state-owned Spanish phosphate company could give it for allowing it to stay on. As it is, Spain has invested $447 million in the territory's phosphate mines...
...people. "It is going to take a tremendous disaster from famine before people come to grips with the population problem," warns Norman Borlaug, the prime mover of the Green Revolution. "The stage is set for such a situation right now." Indeed, in parts of Central America, in ten sub-Saharan nations and in some rural areas of India, the 20-year trend of declining death rates and infant mortality is being reversed. Death rates are rising. This, according to Malthus, is nature's brutal way of redressing the balance when population exceeds food supply-if man himself does...