Word: africas
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...Clinton has seemed distant this year, it's because he has been--traveling to Europe, Africa, South America and China. But with the exception of NATO expansion and the Northern Ireland peace accord, foreign policy gems have been elusive. The Monica Effect is easily overstated here--the sex scandal surely didn't influence Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's decision to ignore Clinton's pleas and detonate underground nuclear tests in response to India's--but foreign leaders are sensitive to shifts in American presidential power. Despite Clinton's warnings, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thumbs his nose...
President Clinton is offering a $2 million dollar reward and has vowed that the bombers of U.S. embassies in Africa will be brought to justice. At the same time, Tanzanian authorities on Monday rounded up what appear to be "the usual suspects". But don't expect to see this case resolved any time soon. "The U.S. has a mixed record in solving terrorist attacks outside our borders," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. Arrests have been made in only 8 of the 24 major attacks against American targets since 1979, and Washington has retaliated militarily only once. "Even in the cases...
...embassies in Kenya and Tanzania indicates what may be a new trend: "With airline security having been beefed up and U.S. embassies in the Middle East now heavily fortified, we may see an increase in car-bomb attacks at more vulnerable facilities," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "Africa has traditionally been a low-risk area and our embassies there aren't heavily protected. But these attacks show that terrorists prefer the path of least resistance...
...their March 30 cover story, "Africa Rising," a survey of emerging African nations, news director MARGUERITE MICHAELS and senior foreign correspondent JOHANNA MCGEARY claimed the N.A.B.J.'s second-place award. Michaels says that after spending 12 years reporting on Africa, this article was "one of the most exciting and satisfying pieces of journalism I've ever done. It gave me the chance to share with TIME readers the vibrant, good-news part of Africa that rarely gets into print...
When you've spent 27 years in prison, every birthday is precious. NELSON MANDELA of South Africa made his 80th even more so by marrying his sweetheart, GRACA MACHEL, 52, the widow of a former President of Mozambique and an advocate for international child welfare. Rumors of wedlock had been rife, but Mandela had betrayed no hint of matrimony, even as he received birthday gifts early on Saturday at the presidential residence in Pretoria. Then, in the afternoon, a press conference of "national importance" was announced, luring reporters from Mandela's home outside Johannesburg. With the press...