Word: lesotho
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...fashion sit uneasily with the necessity to design a uniform that will suit every shape of athlete, from basketball player to gymnast to weight lifter. And the tension tells. The countries that do best in the clothing stakes are those that have a national dress - African countries, notably Nigeria, Lesotho and Swaziland, showed off their traditional clothing. Some teams compromised by sending out a couple of athletes in folk costume and the rest in what might easily pass for air crew uniforms. The handsome man in a short embroidered purple velvet coat and fairy-tale beautiful girl in cream silk...
Campbell is convinced that if Africa's rock art were inventoried, it would total many hundreds of thousands of individual images. Some 80,000 have already been recorded in Lesotho alone, 30,000 more on the eastern slopes of the Natal Drakensberg in South Africa and more than 4,000 in the Tsodilo Hills in northern Botswana. Indeed, the rock art is so plentiful that despite the hundreds of rolls of film donated by the Getty Institute, Coulson can afford to shoot only the best examples. "We skip over images that are either inferior or too recent," he says...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. Of J. PAUL GETTY JR., 62, billionaire philanthropist, and VICTORIA HOLDSWORTH, 44, a former model and his companion of 20 years; both for the third time; on Dec. 29; in Barbados. RESTORED. MOSHOESHOE II, 56, exiled King of Lesotho, banished by the country's ruling military council in 1990; to the throne; in the capital, Maseru. More than 10,000 subjects watched as Moshoeshoe's son King Letsie III, who had been installed after Moshoeshoe's dethronement, formally abdicated and handed back the crown to his father. DISMISSED. FAUSTO ALZATI, 41, Mexico's Minister of Education; by President...
Those who are swept into power by military coup sometimes find themselves swept out the same way. Take Major General Justin Lekhanya of Lesotho, a former policeman who seized control of the small African country in 1986. Last week rebellious army officers marched him to a radio station in the capital of Maseru, forced him to read a resignation speech and then replaced him with Colonel Elias Ramaema...
...ordered 100 lunches and several bottles of South African wine for the papal entourage and settled back to discuss the latest developments in southern Africa. While he and the Pope chatted, government officials hastily arranged for a motorcade to take the papal party on the 300-mile journey to Lesotho, a black-ruled kingdom entirely surrounded by South Africa. "We consider it a privilege to assist the Holy Father," said an obviously elated Botha. "We are known for our hospitality...