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To Evariste Kassanda, 33-year-old chief of the Congo's elite Police des Mines, nearly everyone and everything coming out of the diamond-rich Kasai province is suspect. In search of an estimated $20 million in diamonds a year smuggled out of the Congo, he and his men...
Sitting back in a Washington hotel room, Republican National Chairman Ray Bliss smiled the kind of smile that had hardly creased his face in two years. "This press conference," he said, "will be a little different from my first one, when you were asking me if the Republican Party would...
Yet for all its conglomerate splendors, San Simeon was considered a white elephant after Hearst died. The University of California politely refused it as a gift, and only reluctantly in 1957 did the state take it over as a park. Today, California's Department of Parks is bursting with...
Birth Control. For reasons that ecologists are unable to explain, the elephants themselves seem to be aware of the danger-and have begun to practice birth control of sorts. At Tsavo, where the elephant population has entered a "cycle of despair," the mating age of young cows has been mysteriously...
Before it is over, Africa will have gone through the biggest big game hunt in its history. Already Uganda has "cropped" 4,000 hippo and nearly 2,000 elephants. Zambia and Rhodesia have hired white hunters to kill as many as 10,000 buffalo and hippo. In Kenya, where authorities...