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BABOON RESERVE, Bronx Zoo. Nubian ibex, rock hyraxes, assorted waterfowl and two troops of threatened gelada baboons inhabit this new 5.5-acre exhibit, which re-creates the high-altitude grasslands of Ethiopia's Amhara Plateau...
...traveled 63,350 miles in 84 days to 23 countries, urging the retention of sanctions against South Africa and raising hackles by his refusal to denounce Fidel Castro and other revolutionaries who have supported his cause. The strain is showing: last week Mandela came down with mild pneumonia in Ethiopia. Mandela, who turns 72 this week, is considering a vacation that could raise some eyebrows: a three-week Caribbean sojourn as Castro's guest in Cuba...
...extremely interested in the whole Horn of Africa--Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia. Especially the war in Sudan." He's interested eventually in working as a photographer for one of the news services--particularly Reuters, which he admires for its ability "to get to the hard-to-get-to places." But, he says "I've been thinking about spending next year, if I can, working with a relief agency in Sudan. Just to get a feel for it and to try to understand the country. I'm interested in where the Arab world intersects with Africa...
After nearly three decades of Third World self-help projects like digging wells in Ethiopia and advising on animal husbandry in Guatemala, the 6,500- member Peace Corps will turn to a new frontier this year: Eastern Europe. Starting in June, 120 volunteers will begin to leave for Hungary and Poland; an additional 60 corps members may soon go to Czechoslovakia. Peace Corps director Paul Coverdell says the first group will teach English, while future plans call for volunteers to assist in small-business development and environmental protection...
...despite my best efforts to stoke them, the fires of rage have cooled. Was Roger Ailes the prisoner and Willie Horton the political strategist or the other way around? And what does it all have to do with starvation in Ethiopia, anyway? Yet, thanks to the peculiar economics of the direct-mail business, a heart that bleeds only sporadically and selectively is worse than a heart that doesn't bleed...