Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...things considered, it was not a bad week for Zaïre's beleaguered President, Mobutu Sese Seko. After all, he had been struggling for a month to combat, both politically and militarily, the invasion of his country's Shaba region by exiles who had fled the former secessionist province of Katanga in the mid-1960s. Finally, last week, Mobutu got some important signs of support from his friends...
...collision ?known with studied casualness as creating an "aluminum shower"?puts the controllers under tremendous strain from the time they clear a jet for takeoff until they guide it to a landing (see diagram). FAA psychological tests have shown that controllers undergo more stress than combat pilots. At Chicago's O'Hare Airport, the world's busiest, they are allowed to work for only 90 minutes at a stretch during peak hours, landing a plane every two minutes while simultaneously keeping track of half a dozen more...
Besides familiarity with the region's terrain and people, the grizzled Katangese boast over a decade and a half of combat-tested savvy. They originally fought for the late Katangese separatist leader Moïshe Tshombe. After his defeat in 1963, they were forced into exile in Angola, then adopted by Portugal's secret police to fight Angolan liberation groups. Following Lisbon's 1974 revolution, which led to the dismantling of Portugal's African empire, the Katangese were virtually forced to side with Agos-tinho Neto's Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola...
Desire for Change. The "combat Cabinet," as Barre called it, represents Giscard's last, best chance to win those elections. But if the French President perceived a desire for fundamental change, his response was, well, a bit restrained. The most striking feature of the new Cabinet was not the new faces but the missing ones. Gone were three ministers who represented the principal political groups in the coalition: Independent Republican Michel Poniatowski, an outspoken crony of Giscard's who was Minister of the Interior; Centrist Jean Lecanuet, Minister of Planning; and Gaullist Olivier Guichard, Justice Minister. The three...
Died. William Stuart Nelson, 81, former dean of religion at Washington's Howard University and an early advocate, along with Martin Luther King Jr., of nonviolent protest to combat racial segregation; in Hyattsville, Md. A soft-spoken but self-assured Baptist minister. Nelson became a convert to the strategy of passive resistance after he met Mahatma Gandhi in India in 1946. In the early 1960s, he predicted that it would "reshape the entire structure of race relations...