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...made weapons turn up in the oddest corners and conflicts. Five Sherman tanks of World War II vintage were used last month when the armed forces of Uganda overthrew the government of President Milton Obote. How did they get there? Originally a U.S. contribution to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease, the tanks were later given by the Russians to the Egyptians. Israel captured them during the Six-Day War. After an overhaul, the tanks went to Uganda under an Israeli military-aid program. Next mission...
With upper floors stepped five feet out beyond lower ones, the structures have a brooding quality. Fountains and an impressive collection of outdoor sculpture lend a touch of urban design. The place seems to foreshadow a new kind of city-suburb...
...exist in this country without incredible economic and political implications. If every television set could communicate with every other television set in this country, telephones would become obsolete. Videocassettes alone will cripple Hollywood even more than it is crippled now. In political terms, the decentralization of television will lend itself to countless aspects of daily life: communities will be defined more by issue, interests, or vocations than by geography. And on a personal level, total access to communication systems like this would enable each person to have more control over his life...
...Black African unity seems as remote today as the fall of Pretoria. A few regional organizations-for example, the East African Community, a common market comprising Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda-have been moderately successful. But the African Development Bank, created to finance regional cooperation schemes, has little money to lend because only nine African states have paid up their allotted subscriptions. "What are we supposed to share?" asks the Ivory Coast's President, Félix Houphouet-Boigny. "Each other's poverty...
...world has forgotten. It is a Christianity which accepts the Bible as truly the Word of God but does not accept that truth in order to neglect the tangible problems of he world. In the process, L' Abri rejects and transcends the position of most 20th-century churches, which lend unfounded spiritual support to the established order. The people at L' Abri believe that God's truth cannot be molded by either side of a political or philosophical spectrum to fit any particular viewpoint. It is God's truth, exhibited in the life of Christ for all times, including...