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FRENCH CAMEROONS Jungle Terror Six months after the French gave internal autonomy to the French Cameroons, a California-sized land of steaming coastal plains, rain-sodden jungles and high savanna just above the equator on Africa's West Coast, native Premier André-Marie M'bida finds himself confronted with a reign of terror spearheaded by 5,000 hard-core Communist guerrillas-Led by a Prague-trained Communist named Ruben Um Myobe, first secretary of the Red-front Union of the Peoples of the Cameroons (UPC), the terrorists burst out of the jungles, burn grass huts, shanghai thousands...
HELEN E. HAYES Savanna...
Ryan, whose home is in Savanna, Illinois, is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha...
...baboons have been thwarting progress ever since the government cleared away 430 acres of savanna last year and laid out Livingstone Airport, designed for jet transports. To begin with, the big grey baboons streamed out of the forests on to the runway, swinging big sticks to squash up a midday lunch of scorpions. "They got in the path of oncoming planes and left sticks and rubbish on the runways," complained Airport Manager E.G.F. Salmon. "We drove out in jeeps to drive them off and fired shots over their heads. Somehow we couldn't shoot to kill; they were...
Frost was still on the grass at Savanna, Ill. (pop. 6,000) when he told 800 early risers: "I hope you don't catch cold. But I suppose you Illinois folks are used to this weather." As the train rolled along the upper Mississippi, he climbed up into the vista-dome car provided by the Burlington Railroad, gazed out at the great river that licked at the roadbed. He cracked that the Mississippi didn't really get big until it was joined by the Missouri...