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Behind that statistic lay a lot of heartache. Some of the Africans attribute the difficulty to simple jealousy on the part of U.S. Negroes. Said Freddie Balogun Savage, a Stanford student from Sierra Leone: "By putting on native clothes or simply uttering a few words in our exotic accents, my wife Sylvia and I can move out from the ranks of American Negroes. But there's more to it than that. With my training in political science I've already been assured an assistant secretaryship in the foreign ministry back home. Sylvia's M.A. in education assures...
...intertwining of pre-conquest traditions and Spanish-Catholic customs evident in these marriage patterns is typical of sierra culture. Harvesting potatoes in a field high above Vicos, I often wondered whether I was on a medival manor or in an isolated corner of the Inca Empire...
...practicality of proposed government plans to move whole sierra villages into the vast, unsettled selva is extremely dubious to anyone who has felt the oppressive, steaming air of the Amazon basin. Until some solution is found, penniless sierra Indians and mestizos will continue to pour into the rapidly growing slums which ring Peru's modern coastal cities...
...government will be elected in June. It will, many people feel, be allowed about two years to show concrete progress toward a solution of the complex problems of the sierra region. If it fails, the government may well fear that the awakening population of the sierra will join with other discontented groups to bring about a revolution whose consequences could be felt far outside the borders of the world of the ancient Inca...
Before leaving for Rome, though, Ohiri had competed unofficially with Ghana, Sierra Leone, and the U.S. He jumped 60 ft. to defeat U.S. Olympian Ira Davis in the hop, step, and jump...