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To make Shaba secure, Zaïre will need outside military assistance for its poorly organized and undisciplined 40,000-man army. The diplomatic question was how to provide it. After getting assurances that other moderate African states would help, Morocco's King Hassan II agreed to come to...
Other African countries, notably Nigeria and Tanzania, are also cool to the proposal. They object to the interventionism of former colonial powers, and they argue that any military force should be tied to the Organization of African Unity. Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, who has welcomed several of the Carter Administration...
He has been described as a modern-day Cecil Rhodes. If anything, comparison with the great 19th century imperialist understates the restless, driving ambition and material success of Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, 60, chief executive of the London-based conglomerate Lonrho, Ltd. Rowland has transformed a small initial stake in Africa...
While the two superpowers were exchanging salvos, the leaders of 15 NATO nations were in Washington to talk about rapidly growing Soviet military forces. To offset the threat to Western Europe, the NATO summit gave final approval to a 15-year program that will substantially increase the alliance's defenses...
His inscription reads: Harvard honors his eloquence, acuity and respect for human rights, and salutes the achievements of a multi-racial democracy in a rapidly changing continent.