Word: madagascar
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...states. De Gaulle frankly hoped and expected that most of the colonies would prefer to settle for autonomy within the French Community. But twelve members have disconcertingly taken him at his word, and France has accepted the situation with grace. Last April, the Malagasy Republic on the island of Madagascar and the Mali Federation, a union of the former French West African colonies of Senegal and Sudan, sought and were granted their complete sovereignty. In the next two weeks, eight other Community members will become independent nations: Dahomey, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, and Niger, which are loosely grouped into...
...island of Madagascar became the independent Malagasy Republic...
...Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island, whose 5,000,000 inhabitants are largely descended from a far-voyaging group of Malayo-Polynesians who settled there perhaps 20 centuries ago, became the independent Malagasy Republic last week to the theme of banners reading "Long Live France, Country of Great Men!" Bulky, autocratic Philibert Tsiranana, the country's most popular figure, holds the offices of both President and Premier, and to avoid bothersome annoyance from Parliament, persuaded the legislators to give him the power to rule by decree. Though completely independent, the new republic will remain in the French...
...bird screamed upward off its Cape Canaveral launching pad, nosed over toward the southeast, curved down the length of the Atlantic and navigated 9,000 miles before its nose cone splashed hard by its chosen target just south of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. In exactly 52½ minutes last week, the 130-ton, 75-ft. Atlas rocket set a new U.S. missile record and beat the Russians' best distance mark by more than 1,000 miles...
Elsewhere in Africa the drive toward freedom moved on. Last week, 18 months after France granted them autonomy, two French Community members extracted from France formal agreements granting them full independence. They are: the Malagasy Republic, which occupies the 228,000-sq.-mi. island of Madagascar, off Africa's southeast coast, and the Federation of Mali, a union of the former French West African colonies of Senegal and Sudan...