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...million countrymen may giggle at their new names, most of them respect the President's motive: to give them something of their own to be proud of. They felt degraded by Belgium's harsh colonialism under which they were called macaques (apes) and treated as backward children. Mobutu's "authenticity" campaign, going back as it does to their own precolonial tribal roots, at least gives them something to hold...
They have also found a common scapegoat for their past troubles. Lagu insists that the British, not the northern Sudanese, were originally to blame for the civil war: "They deliberately kept us backward. They should .have taken a clear-cut line in the Sudan, either divide the country or unify it. They did neither, and we paid the price. But now the Sudan is finally going to work...
...vacuum. An exhibition is currently on view at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art that attacks this generalization too. "Chicago Imagist Art," a grab bag of work by 28 painters and sculptors, moves to the New York Cultural Center on June 27. It is a messy and often backward show, but it does trace the growth of a resolutely independent attitude to paint, metal and wood and what images can be made from them...
...Candidate Teddy-physical as well as pet competition had to be included. Bobby's son Michael, 14, won on the obstacle course (1 min. 19 sec.), while his brother Joe, 19, fell over every hurdle and flopped spectacularly into a mud puddle. "Bobby Shriver could do it backward better than that," needled Eunice Shriver, who was the star of the Slide-for-Life sling-a survival rig of ropes and pulleys set up by the Green Berets...
...fustian, the candidate prowing through crowds attended by hard-eyed men not quite in control, the people reaching out to touch him. Then, abruptly, the little black gun exploding like a birthday-party favor-pap pap pap pap pap in a smudge of gunsmoke. The candidate would capsize backward, the cameras would catch a wild, stricken frieze as his young wife knelt over him, staining her suit with his blood, and the bodyguards, an instant too late, would wrestle down some strange little drifter with a pistol welded to his hand...