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After stops in Zaire (where he came down with a stomach ache after feasting on wild boar and manioc leaves), Liberia and Senegal, Kissinger returns this week to Nairobi for the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development. There he will announce formation of an International Resources Bank to finance development of raw materials. Earlier, Kissinger pledged $200 million to the International Fund for Economic Development...
...guerrilla factions as well as respected Rhodesian whites to prepare for one-man, one-vote elections. There was little hope his plea would be heeded, but his blunt language was a clear measure of widespread African frustration about how to deal with a country that, as TIME'S Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs found last week, seems increasingly out of touch with reality-and with itself...
...M.P.L.A. regime in Luanda. Kenya and Ethiopia are afraid that Somalia, a major recipient of Moscow's largesse, might try to revive its longtime dream of a "greater Somalia" by pushing its territorial claims into southern Ethiopia and northeastern Kenya, where many ethnic Somalis live. The Nairobi government also fears that Soviet aid to Uganda might inspire its volatile President Idi Amin to push a corridor to the Indian Ocean-through Kenya...
...front but a miserable bunch of F.N.L.A. cowards from behind. Any help from mercenaries will be too little and too late. The game is just about over." Allowing for a bit of hyperbole, that dour summation of the Angolan civil war last week by an American diplomat in Nairobi was fairly close to the mark...
...recent successes of the Soviets are a far cry from Moscow's experiences in Africa during the early 1960s. "In those years, the Russians were a bunch of boobs," recalls TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs, who also reported from Africa in 1959-62. "The sight of Soviets in ill-fitting suits, sweating profusely, turned off Africans who were used to seeing the immaculately tailored British and French. The Soviets also committed horrible gaffes. They sent snowplows to tropical Guinea (they have since been converted to bulldozers) and modern toilets to its capital, even though Conakry had no sewage...