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Fading Away. As black Africa's most populous nation marked its sixth anniversary last week, it teetered on the brink of civil war. The cause of its problems is the age-old struggle between three dominant tribal groups: the ambitious Ibos of the oil-rich Eastern Region; the ebullient Yorubas of the cocoa-growing West; the feudal Hausas and Fulani of the semiarid "Holy North." Their differences are basic and, unfortunately, all too typical of the tribal divisions that plague other African nations. The Northerners are rigid Moslems, suspicious of outsiders, wary of progress, ruled by reactionary emirs whose...
This represents quite a comeback. Just over two years ago, Italy seemed to stand on the brink of disaster. Even though industrial productivity was growing, the cost of living was rising more quickly-8.8% in a year and 20% in three years-than anywhere else in the Common Market. Gold and foreign-exchange reserves had sunk to a precarious $2.1 billion, the balance-of-payments ledger showed a deficit of $1.2 billion, and devaluation of the lira was under serious discussion...
Concerned as we are with age in this week's cover, it may be in order to say a word about our own years. TIME itself was 43 last March. The three top editors (managing editor and the two assistant managing editors) average out on the brink of 50, which also happens to be the age of the publisher. The associate and contributing editors, who constitute TIME's writing force, are an average 40, but 26 of them are 35 or under. A few other averages: senior editors, 43; researchers, 33, although ten are 25 or under...
...vast swath of the nation's most fertile farm land, crops and cattle sautéed under the searing sun; an Agriculture Department spokesman warned that farmers were "right on the brink of disaster." A swarm of rattlesnakes invaded little Harrison, Neb., looking for water; southwest of Chicago, heat-crazed frogs swarmed by the thousands across parched fields...
...office that he will hold for the next twelve months, the new president, Dr. Charles Hudson, a Cleveland internist, counseled moderation. "There are people who think doom is going to fall in on us," he said. "I think this opinion is not justified. We are not stepping off the brink into a bottomless pit of professional destruction and despair." He proposed that doctors "make the most of this new program." If they do, he suggested, they may help "prevent its extension toward a national health service...