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...Amin's Assurance. Only a handful of Western newsmen have been allowed into Shaba. Thus, reports TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs from Kinshasa, foreign diplomats remain skeptical of the government's military claims. Nonetheless, Mobutu's forces may have stabilized the conflict-if only because the invaders showed last week that they can fight as poorly as the Zaïrians have. Moreover, the Angolans and Cubans may decide it is not worth risking greater involvement in Shaba now that Mobutu is receiving help from abroad...
...army. France airlifted the Moroccans' equipment, along with a handful of French instructors, to Zaire. China contributed supplies, and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat sent a military fact-finding mission. From Sudan, which shares a border with Zaire, President Jaafar Numeiry promised aid. Even Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin Dada talked about dispatching 30 truckloads of paratroopers, though none arrived...
...some other foreign policy areas. Only 39% feel he should push harder for black majority rule in South Africa if by doing so he jeopardizes exports to the U.S. of essential minerals like gold and copper. Only 42% believe he should criticize foreign leaders-like Uganda Dictator Idi Amin-if this threatens the safety of Americans living under their rule. On the other hand, just 29% of those polled support Carter's decision to continue foreign aid to countries that suppress human rights but are essential to U.S. national defense. Half of the people surveyed would...
...third time in one night, McCarthy was responding to a question about the kind of job he thought Carter was doing. Then someone asked about Idi Amin; someone else about Carter's letter to Sakharov. The same kinds of questions it seems everybody asks politicians these days. I suppose these are the only kinds of questions people are concerned about these days...
...delegates agreed to set up the nucleus of a permanent Afro-Arab organization and to hold a summit conference again in 1980. Both Uganda and Sudan offered their capitals as the site. Amin's Kampala is not quite what the Afro-Arabs had in mind. But, as one Arab League official put it, "a lot can happen in three years...