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Now that the dollar is worth princely piles of lire, Americans in Italy should be getting more of everything for less, right? Yes, unless they happen to be gastronomical pilgrims in search of the Continent's current culinary wonder, la nuova cucina italiana, the new Italian cooking. In this...
More than one-third of American investment in the African continent is concentrated in South Africa alone. American corporations pay taxes to the government, and foreign loans help finance South Africa's purchases abroad. In addition, although U.S. investments account for a relatively small proportion of total foreign capital in...
This year's outbreak is the most severe in the U.S. since 1925, when 34 of 38 victims died. But it is comparable in name only to the Black Death that ravaged Europe in the 1300s. Spread by ship-borne rats and nurtured in urban filth and squalor, the...
If the Libyans and the rebels push southward, as they appear ready to do, and if the French avoid direct involvement in the conflict, Habré's government will surely fall. On the other hand, if Gaddafi should decide to keep his troops in northern Chad, the country could...
With its poverty-ridden population of 4.6 million, almost no mineral resources and negligible strategic value, Chad never seemed important enough for major powers to worry about. But last week, alarmed by the latest turn of events in the landlocked former French colony, President Reagan authorized an additional $15 million...