Word: sudanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip, for through the long tour Nixon rarely allowed himself to lose sight of his diplomatic job. And-as correspondents began to discover toward the end of the tour-the job was far more than handshakes and baby-patting. On his seven-nation (Morocco, Ghana, Liberia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya) African go-round, he held down-to-earth closed-door conferences with African leaders, learned how to juggle tactfully the usual requests for foreign aid, came away each time satisfied that he had done something to explain the goals and hopes...
...insurance-company loans to buy eight farms, 1,500 acres, for an average $62.50 an acre. They plan to farm only the best 200 acres, but can put 771 of the poorer acres into the soil bank's "conservation reserve." For covering this land with Sudan grass now and sowing a permanent cover of bluestem and grama grasses next year, they expect the Government to pay upwards of $15,000, about 80% of the seed and sowing costs. This subsidized sowing qualifies the land for federal "rent" at $11 an acre this year and, under a ten-year contract...
...relationship more valued because it was volunteered. One way or another in the twelve years since World War II-years during which Russia enslaved all of Eastern Europe-Britain has given self-rule to six nations* and 507 million people, and of them all, only Burma and Sudan had voted to leave the Commonwealth. Britain is now in the process of giving measured self-rule to 61 million more. Among them...
...India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma, Sudan, Ghana...
...Niger. The new kingdom of Morocco occupies about a fifth of this old Almoravide empire. The remainder of the area is divided between Spain's Rio de Oro, a corner of Algeria, the huge French West African province of Mauritania, and a chunk of the French Sudan reaching a few hundred miles north of legendary Timbuktu. Except for the coastal strip it is sun-scorched desert, rich in minerals, which the French, since they finally subdued the tribes in 1934, have mapped but have hardly tapped...