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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lennox-Boyd in London last May, few politically conscious Nigerians had doubted that home rule was really on the way. The only question was when. Last week in the dusty streets and mangrove-shaded gardens of the ramshackle, tin-roofed capital of Lagos, Nigerians read the answer in a special 32-page edition of the Dally Times. The answer, for half of Africa's most populous (33 million) nation...
...truth seems to be, reported London Daily Telegraph Special Correspondent Denis Warner last week from Kabul, that most Afghans, official as well as unofficial, dislike and distrust foreigners, regardless of nationality. When the Afghan King left his Russian jet and was whisked to his palace on a five-lane Russian-built superhighway, it quite possibly marked the first time in several weeks that the highway had been used by anything more than a donkey cart. Russia has also supplied some $40 million in military aid "several" T-34 tanks, fairly modern artillery pieces, 32 MIG-17 fighter planes...
...back window himself. To a father who had to leave a ten-year-old boy behind, Carmelo pledged, "You'll get your son back." Seven months later he raided a detention camp deep in Yugoslavia, found the boy and delivered him to Trieste. Once he made a special trip to bring out a farmer...
After World War II, the Italian government posted 20-ft. watchtowers with searchlights along the watery plains of the Po River delta, set up a special new intelligence corps and dispatched motorized patrols to strategic spots in the hills of central Italy. The time had come, said the government, to break up the booming $8,000,000-a-year black market in Etruscan art objects. Beneath hill and plain lay buried treasure-the vases, statues and coins that the energetic Etruscans had placed in the tombs 25 centuries ago. This was part of the "national patrimony," said the government...
...Cigar Disguise. Etruscan grave robbing is now thought to involve a network of 200 thieves, 25 middlemen and a dozen fences. Last year the government's special contraband corps arrested 89 looters. Not realizing that much of the booty is stolen, and some faked, Americans bought 85% of the Etruscan objects in respectable-looking shops. Customs officers, traditionally easygoing with American tourists, let them pass. "Americans could walk out of Italy with the Colosseum," complained one contraband officer. But last month frontier customs guards caught an Austrian carrying a vase dating from the 6th century...