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There has been no rainfall in many parts of Mozambique for three years, and the earth, the grass dwellings and even the sky have turned a deadly ashen hue. International relief officials in the capital of Maputo estimate that 170,000 Mozambicans have died since the drought began. A United Nations situation report issued in early June predicts that Mozambique's famine will probably worsen through the year and reach its most critical stage early in 1985. U.N. officials in Mozambique say that 1.5 million people out of a population of about 13.4 million are already totally dependent...
...just faints a while." Hart, 47, Mondale, 56, and Jackson, 42, have been on the road for more than a year. Since January they have had to go at a ferocious pace, running an electoral marathon at sprinters' speeds. It shows. The survivors often look drawn and ashen, and all have made blunders because of fatigue. Indeed, the intensity of this year's primary rigors, physical and emotional, may be unprecedented. Says one drained journalist, a veteran who is trooping after Jackson: "There has never been anything like this. Never...
...revealed more about the collapse of U.S. policy in Lebanon than did the statements that flowed out of Washington last week. Some of those assertions plumbed new depths of contradiction: Secretary of the Navy John Lehman retracted a pronouncement in less than three hours, and at one point an ashen-faced Secretary of State George Shultz appeared to quarrel with a position just voiced by President Reagan. But the essence of the situation was only too clear: after the expenditure of considerably more than $120 million, the deaths of 265 servicemen and the wounding of 134 more...
Throughout his career, Shultz has been known for his perfect corporate cool, his poker-faced steadiness. But last Wednesday, as he read a defensive statement about Lebanon to reporters, his face was ashen and puffy, his voice trembled. He stuck by the now irrelevant May 17 agreement. He referred to "the explosive flow of current events" as if it were an imposition, something beyond the call of duty for a Secretary of State. Next day, his 38th wedding anniversary, Shultz took off with his wife for the Bahamas, seeking some needed rest far from that explosive flow. -By Kurt Andersen...
...cover picture of the ashen, waxy, lifeless figures of Reagan and Andropov standing back to back is chillingly accurate. This image of two grim duelists, neither of whom has anything to say to the other, offers little hope to a world awaiting the outcome of a mutual suicide pact. Bart Whiteman Washington...