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...cover story makes clear, man never really gets even with bugs. Reports Nairobi Correspondent Eric Robins: "I can certify that the mosquitoes are winning-at least in the Samburu game reserve in central Kenya. The mosquitoes drank my insect repellent for cocktails, then had me for hors d'oeuvres...
...court, reported TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs from Luanda, the mercenaries were dressed identically in beltless, one-piece tan prison-issue jumpsuits. During the twice-daily sessions, the prisoners sat calmly on backless wooden stools on a red-roped dock facing the tribunal−a court that consisted of two Angolan lawyers, two soldiers and a representative of OMA, the national women's organization. The mercenaries followed the questioning intently on headsets for simultaneous translation into five languages−English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian. There was a point to having the proceedings delivered in the two latter...
...Soviet military aid, Agostinho Neto's Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) is still having trouble consolidating its control over the country, which is roughly twice the size of France. The cities, the Atlantic coastline and most of the central interior are secure, reports TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs, who flew to Luanda last week to cover the political show trial of 13 whites, including two Americans, charged with mercenary activities. But officials in the capital concede that resistance continues in the oil-rich northern enclave in Cabinda and in the populous Central Highlands primarily along...
...Third World has been clamoring for a "new international economic order" in which a greater share of the world's wealth would be directed toward developing countries. Last weekend the fourth United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD IV) adjourned after 24 days of intense bargaining in Nairobi between the industrialized north and the poorer south. Though the less developed countries (LDCs) did not by any means win all their demands, delegates hoped that an eleventh-hour compromise would preserve the fragile climate of cooperation that has characterized north-south, rich-poor economic relations in the past year...
Your story on Harold Lindsell's book The Battle for the Bible [May 10] implies that unity is of greater importance than truth. Yet Evangelicals at the recent World Council of Churches Assembly in Nairobi did not hesitate to challenge this thesis. Nor did those earlier Evangelicals, the Protestant reformers...