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...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 the Council of the Entente; Chad, French Congo, and the Central African Republic, which make up the Union of Central African Republics; and Gabon. Last week the last member of the Community, the desolate Islamic Republic of Mauritania, formally obtained from De Gaulle an agreement...
...Gaulle recently agreed to what 20 months ago he refused to contemplate: full independence for African nations within the French Community. Last week, after the French Parliament and the Community Senate had voted constitutional changes to make this possible, four more former French African colonies-Ivory Coast, Niger, Dahomey and Upper Volta-said they would seek full independence...
Along the steaming, mud-covered delta of Africa's Niger River, bare-chested men labored amid crocodiles and screaming parrots this week to push shafts of steel deep into the earth. On the choppy waters of the Persian Gulf, others perched on a crablike platform and sent a snag-toothed bit boring into the ocean bed. Around the world, hundreds of men labored just as sweatily in 35 other countries - from the pampas of Argentina to the back hills of New Zealand - to probe the earth in an eager quest for the substance that makes the world...
...Niger, the men in New Zealand's back hills are all employees of a single company, Royal Dutch/Shell, the world's second biggest oil company - after Standard Oil (New Jersey) - and by far the most international in scope, organization and spirit. Controlled in partnership by two holding companies, one Dutch (Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.) and one British (Shell Transport & Trading Co., Ltd.), Royal Dutch/Shell is a two-headed creature that owns or partially owns 500 worldwide subsidiaries. Known simply as "Shell" to the public and to the oil industry as "the Group," it produces 14% of the free...
...cabled ecstatically: "Since this morning she is prouder and stronger!" Proud French officials said that weather conditions had been almost ideal in the red rock and sand testing area of Reggan, some 750 miles southwest of Algiers, lying near an ancient caravan route between the Mediterranean Sea and the Niger River...