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That murky little war in Zaire entered a new phase last week. For more than a month, President Mobutu Sese Seko has been begging for outside help to stem an invasion of Zaire's southern Shaba region by Angola-based Katangese rebels (TIME, April 18). All of a sudden...
The stakes for collegiate players were much higher at the turn of the century, when golf was an infant sport in America played by well-bred, easy-going elite at a handful of schools. Whichever of the three Ivy powerhouses prevailed became the United States Intercollegiate Champion. The Big Three...
Crimson coach Johnny Lee said yesterday that he had expected Bordley to do well in the Blind Tournament, held on the campus of Western Illinois University, because he was one of only a handful of the 160 entrants who had wrestled at the college varsity level.
The problem is a peculiarly difficult one that the U.S. political system and the American temperament are not well tuned to solve. Since the birth of the nation, energy and the United States have been almost synonymous terms: metaphorically, in the boundless vitality of the American people; literally, in the...
Unusual Candor. But a deeper source of confusion is Carter's approach to the human rights issue, which many countries feel is preachy as well as impractical. To them it is not clear what Carter hopes to achieve, especially because only a handful of the world's countries...