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...master's degree in history at the University of Chicago and spending four years as a reporter for the Des Moines Register, his first assignment was to help cover Lyndon Johnson during the busy election year. Later, he served in several of our bureaus, from Chicago to Nairobi, but he has been back at the White House since January...
...balance finally pulled out of the red, lifted by record exports of farm products and more recently by sales of nonagricultural goods. Though the second quarter surplus was modest, the trade improvement should enhance chances for reform of the world money system at the International Monetary Fund meeting in Nairobi in September. U.S. officials predict further gains in the trade balance later this year as devaluation of the dollar makes U.S. exports more competitive in the world. The second quarter U.S. trade figures for the last three years...
...reporting on Libya fell to Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs, who as head of the Beirut bureau from 1964-1968 and again in 1969-1970 had already visited the country several times. On this trip, despite the abrupt and unexplained cancellation of his visa, he was able to spend time in Tripoli and Benghazi before flying to Beirut with a fresh impression of Gaddafi's domain. "It's never been easy covering the Arab Middle East," Griggs says. "But by and large the Arabs are a friendly and charming people who don't blame you personally...
Last week Amin offered another surprise. He suddenly invited a small group of foreign correspondents in Africa-including TIME'S Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs-to Kampala for a one-day visit that included a rare interview with the Ugandan dictator. Griggs' report...
...appointments include a number of other firsts: the first Polynesian (Bishop Pius Taofinu'u, 49, of Apia, Western Samoa), the first Kenyan (Archbishop Maurice Otunga, 50, of Nairobi), the first from the Congo Republic (Archbishop Emile Biayenda, 45, of Brazzaville). But the Pope did not "internationalize" the college as much as some progressives had hoped he might. Eight Italians are among the appointees, bringing the total number of Italian cardinals to 41. France follows with 13, the U.S. with twelve, an all-time high. France, Spain, Australia and Brazil each got two new cardinals, and there was one each...