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...help the sickest patients. "In America," he says, "if a doctor doesn't do anything and the patient dies, it's called a natural death. But if the doctor tries to do something to save that person and he dies, the doctor gets blamed for the death. That's backward thinking." The sickest patients excite Batista most because, he says, "they are the ones I can help the most...
Although the early surveyors reported that Sudan contained more pyramids than did Egypt, the country remained what Wildung calls an archaeological "no-man's-land" until quite recently. The first excavators from Europe found Egypt to be less backward, less remote and less prone to yellow fever, and thus far more pleasant and accessible. Egypt's sites also proved to be so rich that there was little reason to search farther up the Nile...
...heady 1960s, as a student at Tanzania's University of Dar es Salaam, Museveni plunged into the African freedom movement. He learned guerrilla tactics with the Frelimo rebels of Portuguese-ruled Mozambique. He discovered pan-Africanism and Lenin. "Lenin wrote that imperialism was the economic penetration of backward areas by advanced countries. Colonialism was the political superstructure of this," says Museveni. "The message to us was, Until you get rid of both, you'll never be free, and you'll never develop...
...Ugandan President has also been told by Washington to keep out of Kenya, where riots are undermining the increasingly troubled regime of Daniel arap Moi, or the U.S. would "drop him like a hot potato." Though his antipathy for Moi is common knowledge, Museveni has lately bent over backward to bring Moi into the East African Cooperation, an off-again, on-again economic pact among Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, and he seems unlikely to wreck that. But an aide to Rwanda's Kagame told TIME: "Moi will go. Perhaps not with elections...
...insisted that she be satisfied because he'd found another tape he'd lost. Anne noted that Kim is (now) willing to compromise with regard to relationships. On our Israel trip, Kim was involved with a genuinely nice, albeit somewhat socially backward guy. Clearly her boyfriend-standard has changed, presumably along with her needs...