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Having the Italian government as chief stockholder of parent ENI also helps. Two state agencies, Mediobanca and Istituto Mobiliare Italiano last week agreed to lend Zambia $30 million to pay Progetti for an oil pipeline from landlocked Zambia to Dar es Salam on the Tanzania coast...
Died. Malvina Hoffman, 79, long America's foremost woman sculptor, a Rodin student whose deft-but-not-dar ing work used to be so popular that she was able to choose from a stream of lucrative commissions, most notably in 1930 when Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History asked her to portray all the races of mankind, a project that sent her around the world posing ethnic types from Senegal to the Solomons and resulted in 101 true-to-life bronze figures; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...couldn't have happened to a friendlier hippo. Making his home in the grey-green Kurasini Creek outside Dar es Salaam, Hugo is a happy-go-lucky sort who loves nothing better than romping with dogs on the bank, marching behind a herd of cattle, and frolicking in the creek, creating miniature tidal waves. Water skiers even skim over his partly submerged back without raising as much as a snort. But Hugo has a vice: good food...
Orphans Wanted. Hearing about Hugo's plight, Dar es Salaam's daily Standard launched a save-Hugo campaign, and by last week Hugo had become a national celebrity. Some of his notices were anything but raves. "The hippo, like a member of his family, the wild pig, is vermin of the first degree," one irate reader wrote. "The best treatment for Hugo is a bullet through the head." The majority, however, was siding with Hugo and making Tanzania's favorite hippo the hip thing. Last week Tanzanians were humming the "Hugo song." They shuffled, stamped and snorted...
...Dar-based Humane Education al Institute, which once sought rubber booties for footsore Moroccan donkeys, collected $450 to create a Kurasini sanctuary for Hugo and "other animals, preferably orphans." Not to be outdone, the Tanzania S.P.C.A. raised $350 -and the support of President Julius Nyerere-for a plan to ship Hugo to the Mikumi Game Park. Nyerere, who keeps orphaned gazelles, ostriches and peacocks on his private grounds, has even set up plans for a parade through Dar es Salaam once Hugo is caught...