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John Paul's grueling tour is part of a long-range effort to strengthen Rome's spiritual ties with the important African church. The ranks of Catholics on the continent tripled between 1950 and 1970, and now grow by 2 million per year. (Current total: an estimated 77 million out...
None of this assistance, however, will be sufficient unless agricultural production can at least keep up with Africa's 3% annual population growth rate. If long-term food production and population trends in Africa continue, says Mostafa Tolba, chief of the U.N. Environment Program, the continent's population will double...
"Palm Springs has become a rat race," contends Jeannine Levitt, a local hostess whose late husband became rich building rows of development houses a continent away in Long Island's Levit-town. "The party competition is crazy. We're becoming worse than Miami." The point of the new frenzy of...
If proof was needed that Latin America's $360 billion debt burden is a time bomb with unpredictable implications, politically as well as economically, it came last week in Argentina, where a visit by retired Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller touched off the most serious street violence since the...
Not all the board members, however, predicted only good times ahead for Europe. Giersch, for one, saw a Continent divided between a majority of employed and a significant minority of jobless; between skilled workers and the unskilled; between regions that are prospering, mainly those located around the Alps, and regions...