Word: timbuctoo
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...army hundreds of hands to put the Tuaregs in a kissing mood. The fierce, veiled warriors of the high Sahara gave up their murderous ways only in 1917, when they settled uneasily into a pastoral life as goat and camel herdsmen in the sere, sand-scoured mountains north of Timbuctoo. Last week in the Republic of Mali, some 5,000 Tuaregs decided the kissing had to stop. Holed up in the Adrar des Iforas, a parched, 40,000-sq.-mi. redoubt that straddles the Mali-Algerian border, they prepared to fight off half of Mali's army...
Anderson was talking like a man who thought he had not much more to lose. But little does he know. He may yet end up as naval attache in Timbuctoo...
...Uganda this week became the fifth African nation to gain its freedom in a year, and the 28th since 1956. Even informed observers are becoming dazed by the endless roll call of big and little new nations that sound more and more like commuter stops on a train to Timbuctoo: Gambia, Upper Volta, Chad, Dahomey, Mali, Gabon...
...West African nation of Mali is noted for little save its peanuts, a pro-Communist political line, and a dusty town that bears the still vibrant name of Timbuctoo...
...MALI (F.) Pop.: 4,100,000. Size: 945,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 10%. School Attendance: 6%. College graduates: 100 plus. Outside Timbuctoo and other towns, population largely nomadic, 60% Moslem...