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...President Clinton has shown an amazing inability to think of the long-term consequences of his actions. The only results we may see of the actions in Yugoslavia are an increase in the suffering of Kosovar Albanians and a rise in anti-American feeling around the world. OPONDO WANYAMA Francistown, Botswana...
Harvard junior Albert Leger won the men's cross-country race and four other Crimson athletes sped to top-10 finishes on the first day of the Eastern Intercollegiate Skiing Association Winter Carnival at Francistown, N. H. yesterday...
...finally comes, Seretse expects to rename his country Bechuana and set about the enormous tasks ahead. His work is cut out for him. Texas-size, with a population of only 542,000, the country is mostly salt pan and desert, barely suitable for cattle grazing. In the east, near Francistown, Serowe and the tiny, torrid new capital of Gaberones, rainfall permits some crops, mostly maize, sorghum, cowpeas, pumpkins and tobacco. Only a single railroad, 394 miles long, and a highway connect the north and south of the protectorate. East-west roads branch off this central spine, but typically peter...
...hundred thousand Ba-mangwato tribesmen whose kraals spread over 40,000 sq. mi. of Bechuanaland, Seretse Khama, 34, was still the chief. Last week, as a charter aircraft flew Seretse back from six years' exile in Britain, the Bamangwato, with their wives and children, crowded the airport at Francistown by the thousands. Many had trekked for days through the parched African bush to be there in time for his arrival. "Our chief is home again!" they screamed as the aircraft touched down and the returning exile emerged to greet his Uncle Tshekedi, whose complaints about Seretse's marriage...
...British airmen, training in Rhodesia, failed to return from a cross-country flight over the trackless wastes of Bechuanaland. Last week, in the thatched courthouse at Francistown, three ocher-skinned Bushmen named Twaitwai, Tammai and Kiree told what happened to the flyers...