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...Porch's The Conquest of the Sahara, it's not so easy. While the story is told from the perspective of the colonial-French, their swath of death and mutilation across "the world's greatest desert" hardly makes them lovable. On the other hand, their opponents, the Tuareg desert tribesmen and their sometime allies the Chaamba Arabs, are at least as treacherous as the French. No one likes a story without sympathetic characters, and the only ones in Conquest of the Sahara are the nameless Arab and Black peasants and slaves who are robbed, raped, and murdered by both sides...
Geneva's international role derives from its location, in a gap between the Alps and the Jura Mountains. Here Lake Leman, Western Europe's largest, narrows into the foaming torrents of the Rhone River. Wandering tribesmen settled at the lake's edge as early as the Bronze Age. The Romans conquered the place in 120 B.C., and Julius Caesar came to fortify it for his Gallic Wars. In what is now the Place du Bourg-de-Four, where a stone fountain gently splashes through the seasons, the Roman road from Italy once crossed the road to southern France...
...Soviet-bloc ships, including the Bakuriani, have more than likely delivered SA3 and SA-8 antiaircraft missiles, advanced radar equipment that would complete Nicaragua's air-defense system, and a supply of MI-24 "Hind" helicopters. The choppers are heavily armed gunships that the Soviets use against rebellious tribesmen in Afghanistan; they are probably intended to flush out 6,000 of the U.S.-backed contra guerrillas, who have now moved permanently inside Nicaragua to carry on their hit-and-run war against the Sandinistas...
...Ivory Coast, where the essay is set, the physical manifestations of economic growth have been shrines of a sort to a heritage of backwardness. The tribesmen have been taken out of the country to sit in glass and concrete skyscrapers in Abidjan, the nation's modern capital. But human sacrifice still exists in the villages on the other side of the verdant 18 hole golf course at Yamoussourko...
Though Americans have reason to be grateful to the Maoris for entrusting their sacred treasures to the care of foreign museums, the tribesmen themselves take scarcely any credit for the marvels wrought by their artists over a thousand years. One traditional Maori poet declares, "The authority, the awe, the divine and the artistry,/ I inherited these gifts from my ancestors.'' -By Patricia Blake