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Torrential rains turned much of Zaïre's mineral-rich Shaba region (formerly Katanga province) into a knee-deep quagmire last week. The downpour further obscured the mysterious war being waged between about 2,000 invaders from neighboring Angola (TIME, March 28) and the forces of Zaïre's autocratic President Mobutu Sese Seko. After launching a few pinprick air raids, Mobutu's Army Chief of Staff Bumba Moaso Djogi claimed that the intruders were in retreat, "abandoning thousands of corpses" behind them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZAIRE: Mysterious War in a Quagmire | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...catching department Park has sifted his original total of nine mittmen down to three. Junior Rich Trembowicz's knee is now sound and it looks like he's got the inside track, but Steve Joyce and freshman Dan Cassidy are also capable backstops...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Freshmen Pump New Blood Into Baseball Scene | 3/25/1977 | See Source »

...seeking answers to the growing violence, TIME in knee-jerk fashion turns to the defunct and discredited psychiatrists. Psychiatrist Ziporyn attributes the growing violence to a "... moving from a time of restraints back to total liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: The Ultimate | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...through his portable telescope. But for five months this season, home is the hotels and motels of America. Lanky, high-domed and bespectacled, Tennstedt can be a vertiginous sight on the podium. He will perch precariously on his toes when all hands are playing furiously, or do a deep knee bend during tender moments. In his lexicon of body English, an avian flap of the elbow is as meaningful as a sword thrust of the baton. The fluid gestures may be idiosyncratic, but they rarely fail to communicate. Says Tennstedt: "The musician must have the feeling that what the conductor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Body English from the Stork | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...with her knee heavily taped due to an injury and much of her strength sapped by the academic requirements of being a senior at Harvard, Sue Williams continues to play basketball...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Portrait of an 'Old Lady' | 3/4/1977 | See Source »

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