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Brandishing a bill of particulars, Powell ticked off nine countries ("just so we don't miss a continent") in which Reagan has suggested military involvement. He included Reagan's call that Cuba be blockaded in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, that a destroyer should be sent...
Shagari's clout was evident at the July summit of the Organization of African Unity in Freetown, Sierra Leone. When the organization threatened to founder over the divisive issue of Morocco's war against the Algeria-backed Polisario guerrillas in the former Spanish Sahara, Shagari defused the crisis...
Terry Fox, 22, is a fitness-minded British Columbian who played soccer and basketball at Simon Fraser University near Vancouver-until 3½ years ago, when he learned that he had bone cancer. His right leg was amputated above the knee in March 1977, a blow that seemed certain to...
As titular head of the O.A.U. until next July's meeting in Nairobi, Stevens is expected to lead the battle for economic sanctions against South Africa. But his government has tight links with the apartheid regime; 49% of the national diamond corporation is owned by an offshoot of South...
Apparently, none of his students knew that their teacher reserved his pleasures for holidays on the Continent. In Venice, he conducted a passionate eight-year affair with a gondolier. A note in a book found after his death includes an astonishing list of male prostitutes whom he enjoyed on a...