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...Paris conference is also an opportunity for the First World. There, and at next May's UNCTAD conference in Nairobi and the ongoing trade talks in Geneva, the North will have to demonstrate its readiness to consider reasonable requests for changes in the international economic system. If the developed countries seem unwilling to make any substantive concessions, the poor countries may well conclude that only a new wave of confrontation can bring gains...
Covering the civil war in newly independent Angola (see THE WORLD) was a perilous task for TIME'S Salisbury-based stringer (part-time correspondent) Reg Shay and Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs. Shay had to leave the new West African nation last week when a Luanda official decided he might be "a CIA Rhodesian spy." Griggs has covered the independence of nine other former colonies since his first African assignment 16 years ago, so he knew just what to do when soldiers began carrying out predawn identity checks at his hotel. "When the first 4 a.m. knock came...
...Memphis car salesman, a Ghanaian supreme court justice, a Japanese cartoonist-all are Kenya-bound for next week's opening of a potentially explosive international religious meeting. At Nairobi's* capacious Kenyatta Conference Centre, a band beating gazelle-hide drums and blowing on cow horns will greet 747 voting delegates and 1,600 observers and staff. And then the fifth septennial Assembly of the World Council of Churches will settle down to the issues that trouble the non-Catholic wing of the ecumenical movement...
Representing a constituency of 400 million Protestants, Anglicans and Eastern Orthodox in more than 90 nations, the W.C.C. Assembly is something of a United Nations on its knees. And, like the U.N., the council, once Westerndominated, is now heavily Third World. Only two-fifths of the delegates to Nairobi will be from North America and Western Europe...
Last spring, Nairobi delegates received leaflets designed to get them thinking in particular ways about Assembly issues. Heavy on political consciousness raising, they give a once-over-lightly to traditional belief. Much of the political criticism zeroes in on the West, while Communist and Third World countries are largely exempt. Claims one piece in a flight of revolutionary fervor: Mainland China "is the only truly Christian country in the world." To U.S. Catholic Theologian Avery Dulles, the W.C.C. "has been progressively drawn into a political and social activism that makes little reference to the theological tradition." Within the council...