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...nations born last week, none faced bleaker prospects than the Somali Republic. Combining the former Italian and British colonies on Africa's horn, the country is largely a desert plateau, studded with anthills as tall as a man, and roamed by a Moslem nomadic people whose per capita income from their herds is just $10 a year. In a way, Somalia's only asset for nationhood is a small group of capable, moderate leaders. They bear no grudge against the West, because they bear no scars of a struggle for independence...
HIDDEN 7,226 ft. high on the Abyssinian plateau, all but inaccessible to the outside world, lies a forgotten city in a land where, according to Homer, the sun is supposed to set. The holy city of Aksum, spiritual capital of the Ethiopian Coptic Church, was once a flourishing market on the trade routes of Greece and Rome, is now reduced to a clutter of huts and crumbling relics in the mountains 350 miles north of Addis Ababa. Yet in Aksum, Ethiopians believe, Sheba once reigned, and in Aksum for nearly 3,000 years Abyssinian kings and rulers...
...storms began in early April, when hot, dry winds off the Central Asian plateau, melting the skimpy snow cover, swept across a 1,500-mile belt extending from the Caspian Sea through the Caucasus, southern Ukraine and Crimea to Moldavia. The parched earth turned to dust, then rose in sun-obscuring clouds...
...whites, the physical wounds were light-amounting to some 30 injured policemen. Out in the wine-growing flatlands of Cape province or in the sheep-raising Karoo plateau, where the small villages are dominated by steeples of the Dutch Reformed Church, the Nationalist farmers had scarcely noticed anything wrong. At one vineyard, an Afrikaner shrugged: "Maybe the city people have trouble with their natives, but ours are satisfied. We treat them well, give them six tots of wine a day. and keep them peaceful. What have we to worry about?" Another saw Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's escape from...
Novacap President Israel Pinheiro bounced into a small clearing in a DC-3 and surveyed his site: a cool, green plateau cut into a V by the tawny waters of two streams, the Fundo and Bananal. "I spent 18 months with my wife in a single room in a wooden bunkhouse," says Pinheiro. "I stayed there for propaganda. If it was good enough for me, it was good enough for everybody." A whip-tongued engineer, Pinheiro bounced over crude roads in his Jeep, barking endless orders over his radiotelephone: "This is Novacap No. 1 calling...