Word: cameroon
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...World Cup soccer. The U.S.-led commercial travel ban, designed to budge the ruling junta, kicks in at midnight, and about half the 8,000 Americans in Haiti are expected to leave the country. But even as the deadline approached, virtually everyone took time out to watch local favorites Cameroon and Brazil face off. "This place is a powder keg, and it could go off at any minute," TIME correspondent Cathy Booth says from Haiti. "But there's one thing everyone has in common -- they're all soccer fanatics...
...tournament's biggest upset so far: the Irish victory over Italy, 1-0. The Yanks held their own, tying Switzerland 1-1. Other scores: Saturday, June 18 -- Romania 3, Colombia 1 . . . Sunday, June 19 -- Cameroon 2, Sweden 2 . . . Norway 1, Mexico 0 . . . Belgium 1, Morocco 0 . . . Monday, June 20--Brazil 2, Russia...
...FORTUNE-TELLERS by Lloyd Alexander, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (Dutton; $15). In Cameroon a young carpenter consults the town fortune- teller. "You're going to pay me a nice fee," the seer predicts. What he doesn't foresee is that the laborer will end up as the town fortune-teller. This ingenious adventure suggests the magic of the Arabian Nights...
...also written The Anatomy ofArchitecture: Ontology and Metaphor in BatammalibaArchitectural Expression (1987), which wonseveral awards, Africa's Cross River: Art ofthe Nigerian-Cameroon Border (1980), The AfricanArt of Theater (1980) and Beauty and theBeast: A Study in Contrasts...
...triumph. And perhaps 90% of all the athletes can do no more than remind themselves that David beat Goliath in the Slingshot Event. Even the former Soviet Union is an underdog this time. And though the soccer World Cup offers a little of the same excitement -- when Cameroon met England two years ago, all the small countries of the world were surely backing one of their number against a former imperial power -- the Olympics offer a double dose: a little competitor from a little country up against Jackie Joyner-Kersee...