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TANZANIA. Pop. 15,600,000. Independent (from Britain) since 1961. One-party socialist regime; 25% Christian, 31% Moslem, the rest animist. Literacy: 20%. Per capita G.N.P.: $156. Exports: cotton, coffee, sisal, cloves. A primitive agricultural economy beset by zealous collectivization campaigns...
...after a lifetime's apprenticeship in obscurity, Jones has suddenly found himself beset by fame. "This has been a weird year," he says, and the coming year will be even weirder as he develops, willy-nilly, into the latest candidate for great American playwright...
Unfortunately, it is not rural America or small-town America that desperately needs friends, but our overcrowded, problem-beset cities...
...build a coalition of support; Carter's will be to hold on to his. The Georgian will attack Ford for "indecisiveness," claiming that he would be not only a better manager but a more aggressive one. When a Senate committee charged last week that the Medicaid program was beset by multibillion-dollar fraud and inefficiency, Carter wondered where the President had been while the mess was brewing: "Sitting in the White House, perhaps,timid, fearful, afraid to lead, afraid to manage...
...image and developed into one of the world's most respected financial statesmen. He was a vigorous force in expanding the bank's retail and commercial business. But now his name seems to magnify the Chase's problems. A Rockefeller somehow should not be beset with the financial problems that affect ordinary bankers. Yet David Rockefeller is at least partly to blame for the bank's problems. Since the bank has historically been known as the Rockefellers', David was destined for the top job ever since he joined the bank's foreign department...