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...decade from $11 million to $40 million. There is also added opportunity for private ventures. The Parliament of Madagascar last year voted to allow an Israeli company to explore for oil, the first such opportunity anywhere on the continent for Israel. Israelis are also building a new highway linking Ethiopia and Kenya and have just completed a 15-story office building that is Nairobi's tallest...
Israel's image in Africa is varied, to say the least. To Bible-reading Christian converts, the Israelis are the people of the Book. "So nice to meet you," said a Congolese warmly to one Israeli official visiting Kinshasa. "And how is King David?" In Ethiopia, Uganda and the Congo, where Israel's defense forces conduct military training and operations, Israelis are also the people of the gun. In Ethiopia, they have trained the country's entire security force, including commando units operating against Eritrean rebels hostile to Emperor Haile Selassie. Israeli agents in southwestern Ethiopia direct...
...comes from a family of physicians and dentists and was programmed to follow the tradition. "My total inability to master all 274 parts of the frog in college zoology turned my head and nose away from the profession," he says. Hillenbrand spent two years with the Peace Corps in Ethiopia and another 18 months at N.Y.U. studying to become a historian. While a graduate student, he became a stringer-part-time reporter-for TIME and decided to make a career...
...summer. These days one of the swingingest places in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott is the Chinese cultural mission, which features French movies instead of propaganda films. In Zanzibar, where there are 400 Chinese in the aid mission, the latest building project is a rum distillery. Even imperial Ethiopia has established diplomatic relations with China...
...Campbell '61, a career Foreign Service officer. Paradoxically, Campbell was working at the time on a grant from the Council for Foreign Relations finishing his book, The Foreign Affairs Fudge Factory. Campbell took a leave of absence from the Foreign Service, where he was attached to the embassy in Ethiopia, and began work on the magazine. Through his influence, David Halberstam, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and former CRIMSON editor, was added to the masthead...