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During the recent crisis in Zaīre, Western leadership was assumed by France. Indeed, with an estimated 10,000 troops and advisers now deployed in Africa, France has the second largest foreign contingent there, earning for the French the unflattering sobriquet, "the West's Cubans...
Although the rebels had come on foot, many rode home aboard an estimated 350 vehicles stolen from Kolwezi residents. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood, who visited northern Zambia last week, reported that the improbable parade looked like "the largest and best organized stolen-car ring in history: dozens of sparkling Peugeots and Fiats, sedans and pickups, careening along amid clouds of dust, blue-and-gold Zaïre license plates glinting in the sun. One overloaded car carried a man clinging to its hood. Occasionally a stolen truck passed by jammed with rebels, not in uniform but arrayed...
...Falldin of Sweden, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada. All together, 20 heads of state or government were scheduled to drop in on the five-week-long proceedings. The occasion that brought them: an unprecedented session of the 149-member General Assembly devoted solely to disarmament, the largest group ever convened in an attempt to reverse the world's steady accumulation of ever more and deadlier weapons...
...coverage. Local television sales have been booming for months; some businessmen expected that final sales figures for the first quarter of this year would show a 55% increase over those of 1977. Worldwide, as many as 1.5 billion people may watch some portion of the Cup play-the largest television audience since the 1976 Olympics in Montreal...
There were seven works commissioned for the building. Among them: a massive and rotund Henry Moore bronze at the entrance, a large Anthony Caro sculpture gesturing from a ledge in the atrium, an immense Joan Mirķ tapestry and Robert Motherwell's Reconciliation Elegy, the largest and possibly the last (since democracy has now been restored in Spain) of his 30-year series of Elegies for the Spanish Republic. Hovering over and animating the whole central space is a huge mobile by Alexander Calder, feathery light despite its size, and lazily responding to every air current. Smaller spaces are reserved...