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Alan Baldwin Cobalt, Idaho...
...Steven Shepherd's 26-year-old belly looks like a zipper. His faded brown shirt is open, and the scar is the first thing you notice. "It's a splenectomy," he informs. "Hodgkin's disease. I spent a year in the hospital with chemotherapy and cobalt treatments. Now they say it's regressed." It is the beginning of another day in Evanston, Wyo. (pop. 4,848; elevation 6,748 ft.), and while Shepherd talks, the oil and water stains on the cement driveway of the A & A Texaco station are turned to rainbows by the morning...
...women who are loath to have their ears pierced, there is a new, no-bore way to wear earrings that nestle close to the lobe without clips. A magnetized earring is held in place by a minute cobalt-and-samarium magnet on the invisible side. Price: from $7.50 to $25. One trouble is that in telephonic or amatorial exercise the quarter-inch magnet is as easy to lose as a contact lens; some stores, like Saks Fifth Avenue, will remagnetize the lady without charge. No questions asked...
...group will raise $100 million to cover the next three months, with $40 million of this amount contributed by the U.S. That may be just the beginning. Bankrupt Zaïre's debts already approach $3 billion, and its chief sources of foreign revenue, the copper and cobalt mines of Shaba, may be shut off for several months as a result of the recent fighting...
...Mobutu and Zaïre, that would mean disaster. The copper and cobalt mines of Shaba are responsible for two-thirds of the nation's foreign exchange earnings, and Zaïre needs them to survive. Although the region was relatively calm last week, no one precluded the possibility of another rebel attack from across the border, or of a general uprising by a population suffering from severe poverty and the oppression of its country's own plundering army...