Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tastefully toppered for the Epsom Derby, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ignored with statesmanlike restraint an infield dotted with an "American" striptease tent, a rock-'n'-roll band and a "Beautiful Slave Girl in the Grip of a Fifteen-Foot Deadly Reptile," watched with reserve as Crepello, the favorite, galloped home free (see SPORT...
Gerrymanders in the Bush. To counter the Sardauna's majority, the leaders of the South hoped to gerrymander a "Middle Belt" out of the Moslem North, consisting of some 6,000,000 pagan tribesmen who since slave days have hated the Moslems. Zik himself nurtures a private plan to carve some non-Yoruba areas out of his chief rival's Western territories, while his opponents want to set up a new state among the non-Ibos in Zik's own Niger River delta...
...dark and green and impenetrable as the ocean bottom, native chieftains were only too glad to exchange the surplus humanity of their fiefs for the trinkets and calicoes of the newcomers. The human life that the Europeans bought on Africa's west coast, and sold mostly in the slave markets of America, was the same commodity that centuries before had attracted Moorish raiders from the north and Arabs from the east. But few, if any, of the early traders who came to Africa's edges in search of booty and plunder were tempted to penetrate the inhospitable land...
Picking up steady impulses sent out by a master and two slave radio transmitters on the ground, a 40-lb. receiving unit in the cockpit computed the helicopter's position by triangulation. On a stationary navigational chart of the area, the pilot watched a moving pen track his course. For commercial pilots in crowded urban areas, the system promised to permit helicopter service no matter what the weather...
...years a bandit chieftain named Dadshah has ruled supreme on the harsh and inhospitable Tangeorkheh Desert in southeastern Iran, looting, pillaging, murdering and conducting a brisk trade in girls in the slave markets of the Persian Gulf. But though the bandit chief rates as Iran's Public Enemy No. 1, his business, a strictly domestic affair, has gone largely unhampered by the Shah's gendarmery. Last week banditry on Dadshah's desert became an international concern, and the Shah himself ordered the gendarmes out to catch the culprits, try them on the spot and shoot them dead...