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...Africa's colonization. American newspapers seized on the invasion of Shaba province by Katangan rebels and the subsequent rescue mission by French and Belgian paratroopers, as if they had found a modern version of Stanley and Livingston. The Boston Herald-American screamed out "Whites Massacred in Zaire," while Newsweek, slightly less hysterically racist, went with "Massacre in Zaire." White casualties were carefully tabulated and lamented, but the death toll for blacks--a much higher number--was not even mentioned for the first few days, then left casually at "several hundred." The caption on an AP photo in The New York...
...primary political question is always which elites shall rule, not whether elites shall rule," George Will, the syndicated political columnist for Newsweek and The Washington Post, said yesterday...
...ETHIOPIA-SOMALIA conflict this past winter received more press coverage than any other clash in Africa. The Horn of Africa is undoubtedly a hot spot--not solely because Cuban mercenaries bolstered the Ethiopian regime's fight against the Somalis and Eritreans as the cover of Newsweek last week would suggest. But because the area is politically and militarily strategic for a multitude of countries--not least of all Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran. For many Americans the Horn has become yet another conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union staged on third world terrain. This impression alone...
...NEWSWEEK'S latest They're In Your Back Yard report, the cover sported a spooky photo of a long line of rocket launchers, with machine gun laden soldiers perched menacingly on top. Super-imposed was striking type stating "Cubans in Africa." The impressive arms looked brand new, and many Americans who disdain the use of force--especially alien force such as Cuban troops in Africa--were sure to be alarmed and angered...
...seems seeing isn't believing these days, at least not on the cover of Newsweek. In a correction box obscured in the letters-to-the-editor portion of last week's Newsweek, the editors confessed that they--oops!--made just a tiny mistake. The rocket launchers happened to be photographed, not in the jungles of Africa blowing up innocent women, children, and capitalists, but at a military parade in--you guessed it--down home Cuba. "By an inadvertence, this explanation of the cover photograph was left out," the correction box stated contritely, but not too contritely: the next line reminded...