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Pompidou happened to be in the neighborhood, on his way to Ethiopia to repay a visit to France made by Emperor Haile Selassie last year. The territory, known as French Somaliland until 1967, is France's last remaining real estate on the African mainland. It sends one Deputy and one Senator to the French National Assembly. But the colony's voters will hardly play a major role in the French elections in March. In fact, by visiting Djibouti, Pompidou was courting trouble rather than making campaign gains...
Serving in the Shag, as Hanley calls the vast oven of interior Somaliland, one found the usual physical torments: heat, flies, the lack of fresh food and cold beer. Drinking from bitter desert water holes led to "Wajir clap," an excruciating urinary-tract disorder caused by sharp crystals of undissolvable mica and gypsum. Prickly heat could make a man rub himself raw against a wall, al though some relief could be had by spraying from head to toe with...
Breakaway Biafra. The essay topics are rarely hard-news musts, and never flunk the Rooney colon test. Andy says he can spot an overly sober TV treatise merely by the colon in its title; for ex ample, "Somaliland: Case History of a People," His specialty is the light TV essay that extracts the significant from the commonplace. Does it bother him that Reasoner gets all the glory and earns about $200,000 compared with his $60,000? "Harry has never actually sent me for coffee," Andy jokes, "but he often says, 'If you're going to the cafeteria...
...Collection of Wishes. Formed by the 1960 union of British and Italian Somaliland, Somalia is populated by blacks of the Moslem faith who are largely illiterate nomads. While some Somalis in the north speak English, many southerners rattle off Italian with ease-and are only slightly less adept at the appropriate hand gestures. Italian influence also remains in the crumbling old arches and seaside villas, the pasta and Italian wines served in restaurants and the 1934 Fiat trucks that disgorge angry clouds of billowy, greasy smoke in the streets of the capital of Mogadishu...
Source of Embarrassment. After gathering the vote he wanted last week, De Gaulle hailed "this renewed contract" and vowed to carry out France's "mission of liberty and progress." Somaliland can stand some progress. Practically without an economy and with no natural resources, it is kept going only by French aid ($26 million last year). The French have thus won the right to continue pouring money into Somaliland, but they have also won more trouble than they bargained for. Before the week was out, legionnaires rooted thousands of dissident Somali tribesmen out of their tumble-down shanties in Djibouti...