Julian Crandall Hollick

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In June 1977, the small colonial enclave of Djibouti became independent, bringing to an end 150 years of French colonial presence in Africa. Less than 12 months later, not only were there more French troops in Africa than at any time since i960, but they were actively engaged in fighting in Chad, Mauritania and Zaire.1 Were they there out of mere colonial nostalgia and a desire by a former imperial power to play a world role which it had neither the economic nor military power to fulfil? Or were they, singlehandedly, attempting to stem the tide of Communist destabilization in Africa? Elected to the Presidency in 1974 without a clearly defined foreign policy, and accused by the Gaullists of abandoning French independence in world affairs and of kow-towing to the United States, President Giscard d'Estaing regarded Africa as a suitable area in which to forge his own policy and confound his detractors. The energy crisis and the Marxist victory in the Angolan civil war helped crystal...

Three thousand years ago the Cheshnuk dynasty of Libyan nomadic tribesmen ruled over a vast North African empire stretching from Morocco to the Red Sea. With his recent annexation ot neighboring Chad, openly claimed as part of Libya's “vital living space,” Colonel Qaddafi has taken the first successful step toward his much-publicized aim of recreating that empire. If his seizure of Chad is consummated by the planned political union between the two states, Qaddafi at last will be able to strut around as a latter-day duce, lord and master of four million people and an arid mass of sand and mountain the size of Western Europe.Undoubtedly the colonel has a problem. Libya is a vast country, rich in oil, but with a population of only a million and a half–scarcely adequate for a would-be successor to Garnal Abdul Nasser or the Cheshnuk emperors.

“Be afraid. Nuclear death threatens us all!” So read the banners unfurled at this June's biennial assembly of the German Protestant Churches in Hamburg. In Frankfurt a businessman was adamant. “The best days are behind us. Now the Americans will drag us into a nuclear war. And all for what?”Fear is abroad in West Germany, fear of what may happen if American medium-range rockets are installed on West German soil to counter the threat from the Soviet SS-20, Opposition to the proposed deployment has emerged as the one issue that may crystallize the disparate strands of unease and discontent within the country into something much more powerful-something that could, if unchecked, not only hasten the collapse of the ruling coalition of Social and Free Democrats, but rock the foundations of the Atlantic Alliance until it collapses.

If you want to understand West Berlin's history and present political reality, take the train from Hanover or Hamburg. The border crossing from West to East Germany gives the first clue. Barbed wire and high fences line the track; police line the station platform. The few East German civilians who are waiting for their own trains seem to look right through you as though you were invisible—a ghost train heading for Berlin.

... for abandoning the Polisario; third, the Saharouis would accept to become part of a federal Mauritanian state that Libya, Algeria and ... Zaire - limits of Giscard's policy The French intervention in Shaba province on 19 May 1978 produced far greater domestic and international ...

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ABSTRACT Since May 2000, the authors have been co-operating on researching a series of
radio documentaries about the river Ganges in India. In addition to the radio series are a
number of projects running alongside, including the development of educational material for
inclusion in schools’ curricula, a website, a book and a travelling science museum exhibit.
The project as a whole is in its early stages and the authors do not expect to begin recording
until 2003, with the actual broadcast date likely to be 2005. The present article includes a
discussion of the time-scale needed for the research, technical limitations, radio versus other
media, and a synopsis of research carried out so far in three—‘Gomukh to Haridwar: from
the mythic origins of the Ganges to the technology of the Raj’, ‘Kanpur and its tanneries’, and
‘Banaras and understandings of purity and pollution’—of the planned Ž ve separate programmes.
The article concludes with a discussion of two emerging themes; science and
environmentalism, and religio-cultural views of purity and pollution.

Does the river Ganga have unique cleansing and healing powers? The dominant cultural mythology say yes. But almost no scientific tests have ever been carried out on any of the other seven sacred rivers in India. Common sense, the little science available, and Indian mythology suggest that ALL rivers in India may have these self-cleansing properties. In which case all that is unique is faith.  Not to be ridiculed. But faith can splinter and lose its potency if Ganga continues to dry up..