Word: saharans
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...level, the organization's technicians were making sound if unspectacular proposals for increased inter-African trade, the establishment of an O.A.U.-wide commission of jurists, improved telecommunications and transportation. It was an irony of the conference that some of its delegates would have to fly to their sub-Saharan homes by way of Europe...
...Into the Saharan oasis town of Biskra rolled a cautious column of halftracks loaded with olive-uniformed Algerian troops. Spears of sunlight flashed from the lenses of binoculars as nervous officers searched the streets for signs of the enemy. But the town was empty of armed opposition, and all eyes lifted to the sere, sawback massif that reared beyond. Up there, among the blue defiles of the Aures Mountains, waited the latest defector from Premier Ahmed ben Bella's socialist paradise, and with him were 9,000 well-armed veterans ready for resistance, rebellion or death...
...departure, 134 years after the first French soldiers landed, was the last step of France's retreat from Algeria-well, almost the last. Some French troops still remain at the big Mers-el-Kebir naval base and at Saharan bases, but Ben Bella promised his countrymen that a "solution will be found...
...granite and diorite-the Six Cataracts. Below the Second Cataract, it skids through a 100-mile chute, the Batn el Hagar (Belly of Stones), studded with gleaming black islets. Then below Aswan it enters the Egypt of antiquity. Here the neolithic men of North Africa gathered as the grassy Saharan plains dried up into desert following the Ice Age, and here they acted out the first classic example, according to Historian Arnold Toynbee, of "response to challenge"-the challenge of the flood...
...Bella told newsmen, "For me this was an historic event. What a great man, what a great mind!" Informed observers thought the talk dealt with 1) a better share in Saharan oil for Algeria, 2) an increase in French aid, now running at $200 million annually, and 3) Algerian membership in a proposed Mediterranean pact that would include France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, Tunisia and Morocco...