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South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha dips into his private stock of witblits (white lightning), a fiery homemade liqueur distilled from the berries of the wild marula tree, only on special occasions. So it was a sign of the heady mood in Brazzaville, the capital of Congo, that Botha broke out the good stuff last week. Botha and his fellow negotiators, who included U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker, Angolan Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Antonio dos Santos Franca and Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada, were celebrating the signing of a historic protocol calling...
...International Office assists students with technical problems like visa applications, but several African students say they wish it did more. "The Harvard International Office tries to provide support for the foreign students here, but it's kind of limited," says Patrice R. Backer, who came here via Haiti from Congo. "There is a lack of a network," he says...
...company was founded by King William I of the Netherlands in 1822, eight years before Belgium became an independent country. As the country's first central bank, La Generale printed its own paper currency until 1850. By the early 1900s, it was financing copper mining in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) and the building of China's Peking- Hankow railway. With its headquarters in a stately turn-of-the-century building situated between the royal palace and the Belgian Parliament, La Generale today employs nearly 100,000 workers and holds interests in 1,261 firms, including the country's biggest...
...Zaire and Chad. While traditionally gracious hosts to those in need, the Sudanese are also enduring a drought and are rapidly losing patience. Earlier this year Ethiopian refugees streaming into the Sudanese border town of Kassala were attacked by mobs. "We have been involved in refugee problems since the Congo crisis of the 1960s," says Al-Amin Abdul Latif, Sudan's Ambassador to Egypt. "Enough is enough...
...seven years old." In that year her parents joined a quasi-religious organization whose members were mostly affluent and conservative. "They wanted to save the world," says Glenn's younger sister Jessie. "In the process, this cult split up our family." The elder Closes moved to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire), where Glenn's father, a physician, ran a clinic. The children were left in various boarding schools in Switzerland and Connecticut...