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...forest and bush from the Zaïre River (once the Congo) to the copper belt in Shaba (formerly Katanga) is far behind schedule. Construction of a huge addition to the state-owned Gécamines copper mine, financed by the World Bank, the European Investment Bank and the Libyan government, is 18 months late. Work has stopped on the giant new Tenke-Fungurume copper mine, and international backers are handing over $750,000 a month just for maintenance work on the site...
...while trying to mediate the Angolan civil war last year. Uganda plays a noisy but purely verbal role in the southern Africa drama. Uganda's dictator Idi Amin Dada regularly threatens to dispatch a "suicide battalion" to Rhodesia or South Africa; so far, however, Amin has limited the Libyan pilots who fly his Soviet-supplied MIGs to making practice bombing runs on an island in Lake Victoria that he has renamed "Cape Town...
...languages of tribes in the Southwest and Northeast are closely related to Iberic, a Moorish Arabic language, Libyan, Celtic, Basque, and other languages from that area, Fell said...
...withdrawal of an equal number of Syrian soldiers, who had been shelling leftist-Palestinian strongholds in Beirut since the Syrians took over the airport three weeks ago. Half of the Arab League troops, who are trying to enforce a cease-fire between Syrian troops and various Palestinian factions, were Libyan. The other half were fresh Syrian replacements. But the withdrawal of Syria's regular brown-helmeted troops seemed more cosmetic than real; they pulled back only slightly from Beirut into positions from which they could easily advance again...
...Syrian troops to keep peace between other Syrian troops and the leftist Palestinians seemed a shaky solution, but the limited cease-fire remained intact at week's end. It did not, however, bring any real peace to Lebanon because the agreement, negotiated by Libyan Premier Abdul Salam Jalloud, did not extend to the country's warring leftist Moslem and rightist Christian forces. On the day the Jalloud agreement was announced last week, rightist forces launched a savage attack on two Palestinian camps in the predominantly Christian eastern section of Beirut. More than 150 were killed and well over...