Word: saharans
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...sure whether Lassa virus belongs to Casals' favorite group of arboviruses. It is related, he suggests, to a virus that causes a devastating Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (TIME, July 19, 1963). Whatever its nature, it may be widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, but relatively unknown to authorities because natives die of it in the bush without seeking medical...
...have served in sub-Saharan Africa (129), East Asia and the Pacific islands (58, Latin America (88) and in the North Africa Near East and South Asia region...
...Ivory Coast, Liberia, Ghana, the Congo, Zambia and Ethiopa-with Somalia, Kenya and Tunisia also on the itinerary-not even the fabled spirit of WAWA could put Humphrey down. WAWA, short for West Africa Wins Again, is invoked by exasperated voyagers as the malefic author of all sub-Saharan hang-ups, and it struck frequently. Hubert smilingly brushed it aside...
...Coca-Cola's president, J. Paul Austin, 51, becomes chief executive officer, a title he takes over from Board Chairman Lee Talley. Austin demonstrates the growing value of foreign experience to American corporations, for he was Coca-Cola's export chief to sub-Saharan Africa for four years. As president since 1962, he has pushed some of the measures that diversified and brightened up a company that was tending to complacency. He decided to introduce the "lift-top" cap on Coke bottles and cans, helped move the company into coffee roasting...
...morning, Boumedienne's men took no chances of a rescue by Ben Bella partisans. They hustled their prisoner aboard a Russian-built torpedo boat, landed him at a small town west of the capital, drove to a nearby air base, then flew Ben Bella to the remote Saharan city of Tamanrasset, a favorite prison site since French colonial days...