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...energy plan that the President will present to the nation this week. Even before its release, the plan generated violent debate. As preparation for that debate and to get the ideas of business, labor, political and environmental leaders, Time Inc. convened a special energy conference in Williamsburg, Va., last fortnight...
...from getting bogged down in another Congolese war. Belgium, France and the U.S. sent token military supplies last month-and hoped the threat would just go away. It did not. The Katangese occupied much of the copper-rich Shaba area without opposition. Mobutu's big break came a fortnight ago when Morocco's King Hassan II, whose army is still fighting leftist guerrillas in the former colony of Spanish Sahara, decided that the time had come to bail out a friend. Egypt's President Sadat was also sympathetic because he is fearful of Soviet ambitions, particularly...
When he went to see the King Tut exhibit fortnight ago, Carter did not even wear a tie. His retinue of white-shirted ambassadors, National Gallery factotums and Secret Service agents looked faintly uneasy. Jimmy was like the tourists, who gave up neckties a long time...
Imperial Manner. The invasion started quietly a fortnight ago when the Zaïrian rebels-probably no more than 2,000, though Kinshasa placed their number at 5,000-slipped across the border into Zaïre's Shaba region (the former Katanga province) and began to move toward the copper mines. According to U.S. reports, the Katangese had crossed the border in trucks provided by Angola, and were equipped with Soviet-made rockets. They were accompanied by a number of white troops; these could have been Cuban soldiers, but they could also have been Belgian or other European...
...aunt, the illustrious Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit, 76, was a stinging slap in the face. Mrs. Pandit, onetime President of the U.N. General Assembly and former ambassador to Moscow, Washington and London, had made no secret of the fact that she disapproved of Mrs. Gandhi's emergency. A fortnight ago she told reporters that although she loved her niece dearly, she would speak out during the campaign "in order that democracy can be put back on the rails in this country...