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...longs to belong to NATO, although there is no military necessity for doing so: the defense pacts it signed with the U.S. in 1953 give it the same protection that NATO nations enjoy, and the U.S. military bases on its soil make it an active partner in Western defense. Three SAC bases, near Zaragoza, Madrid and Seville, although now being phased out as missiles take over from bombers, could be used as a U.S. staging area for any trouble in the Middle East or Africa. The great naval base at Rota, on the Atlantic side of the Strait of Gibraltar...
...Moral Cleanup." That three regimes fell in less than two weeks underscored the fact that political independence has not turned out to be the panacea many Africans had dreamed it would be. Dahomey, the C.A.R. and Upper Volta are all pitifully poor, lack the mineral deposits and rich soil necessary to lift the standard of living much above the bare minimums their populations had endured for years. Unable to do much for the people, the politicians unwisely did what they could for themselves. Dahomey's first President built a $3,000,000 palace; the Upper Volta...
Shastri had been in Tashkent since Jan. 2 at the invitation of Soviet Premier Alexel N. Kosygin to discuss peace between India and Pakistan. Although the pact signed yesterday did not settle the main issue, possession of Pakistan, Shastri and Ayub agreed to start withdrawing troops from each others' soil and to work for peace...
...last thing Britain wants is troops from other nations on Central African soil. Yet one of Africa's elder statesmen, Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, was also working up to a similar demand. Kenyatta petitioned the U.N. Security Council to declare embargoes on Rhodesia under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter, which would most likely require a U.N. force to police them. Britain does have a veto in the Security Council but the General Assembly can also vote to send such a force...
...soft, dark grey substance that geologists call "quick clay" is composed primarily of small flaky particles and a great deal of water. It contains very little of the electrolytic salts that tend to bind normal soil particles together...