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...Kenya, forlorn Turkana tribesmen trek for miles through the bush to Catholic missions in Kakuma and Lodwar, where emergency food is distributed. In the strife-torn Karamoja province of northeastern Uganda, relief workers wake every morning to find the corpses of malnourished children deposited on their doorsteps. In the Horn of Africa, more than 1.7 million refugees from the unresolved conflicts in Ethiopia's Eritrea, Tigre and Ogaden areas swelter in squalid relief camps, where thousands have already died from malnutrition and a host of hunger-related diseases...
...palm branches, bouquets, homemade crucifixes. In a church near Kinshasa, old women trilled highpitched lullaloos, and the officiating Belgian priest wore a monkey-skin headdress with the tail running down his back. Among the gifts presented to John Paul in Nairobi: primitive paintings, an animal-skin cape, an antelope horn, daggers, a spear and shield, and a tribal headdress that he gamely donned...
...champion ABC, whose jackrabbit programming shuffles fell flat. Final score: CBS, 19.6 Nielsen points for the seven-month period; ABC, 19.5; and NBC, in its first full season under Programming Whiz Fred Silverman, an embarrassing 17.4. "The victory went to the network with armchair, baggy-suits stability," says Alan Horn, president of Norman Lear's Tandem Productions. "CBS makes careful decisions and sticks by them. Slow and steady wins the race...
...long last Talese has got his story into print, and it certainly answers thousands of questions. How, for instance, did Nude Model Diane Webber's great-great-grandmother die? (An Indian shot her in the back.) Did General Custer carry life insurance into the battle of Little Big Horn? (Yes, a $5,000 policy with New York Life.) What covered the circular bed in Hugh Hefner's private DC-9? (A coverlet made of Tasmanian opossum...
...else would make the music at Mardi Gras but New Orleans' favorite horn man, Al Hirt, dressed in a flashy festival costume as a French aristocrat? Bourbon Street and the French Quarter may not see as much of the pudgy entertainer as they have up to now. He is putting together a 17-piece orchestra-Al Hirt's Big Band from Dixieland-and taking it on the road. "There's a resurgence in bands," he explains. "The age of the guitars is gone. After the Beatles, there were a few good groups, but most of them were...