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...usual, formal embassy party, but rather a friendly get-together among off-duty diplomats. As the senior envoy in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, Saudi Arabian Ambassador Abdullah al Malhouk had invited other mission heads to say farewell last Thursday to George Curtis Moore, 47, a popular U.S. Foreign Service officer and first-rate Arabist. After serving as the ranking U.S. diplomat in the Sudan for more than three years, Moore was being replaced by Ambassador Cleo A. Noel Jr., 54, and returning to Washington for reassignment. At around 7 p.m., after Moore had been presented with a silver tray...
Even after the Addis Ababa treaty, the tense and war-ravaged southern Sudan was closed to journalists. Last week TIME'S Robert Kroon was among the first Western newsmen in several years to visit Juba, the southern administrative post 1,000 miles from Khartoum, and the surrounding swamp and bush country, where vultures circle over deserted villages. His report...
...south will be ruled by an autonomous regional council of eleven ministers, and the Premier will be Abdel Alier, 39, a lawyer who holds the post of Vice President in Numeiry's central government. Southern Sudanese, many of whom are Christians, particularly fear that the Arabs in Khartoum will submit to the influence of Egypt. Alier thinks that Numeiry has recently earned high marks for turning away pan-Arabist pressure and for seeking friendship with the Sudan's black neighbors. "The central government is opening Sudan's windows on the world for the first time since independence...
Under a new constitution, the south will have its own Regional President, parliament and police; only foreign affairs, currency and defense will be controlled by Khartoum. The army in the south will be evenly split between southern and northern commanders and men. A majority of the approximately 12,000 Anyanya will be amnestied into the Sudanese army...
...history, ignoring as it does an enmity that has existed between the region's Moslems and blacks since the days when Arab slave traders made regular forays into southern Sudan. Yet both sides will obviously benefit from what a Uganda newspaper described as "a victory for humanity." The Khartoum government will be freed at last to develop a sprawling country...