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...months because of "technical reasons," according to the Soviets. European experts tend to believe the Soviets on this point and feel that they have little to fear from future cutoffs of the new pipeline. The Soviet Union is considered a far more reliable supplier of natural gas than Algeria, Nigeria, Iran and other potentially large suppliers. Said Count Otto von Lambsdorff, the West German Economics Minister: "I have complete confidence that the Soviets will fulfill their responsibilities...
...When there's a bright spot, like the rise of a middle class in Kenya or Nigeria's return to civilian rule, we're certainly eager to cover it," Lamb adds...
...Africans "changes that portend well for the future," an awakening to the need to develop long-ignored agricultural sectors, a realization that primary health-care must come before open-heart surgery. More Africans have access to education and health care than ever before and, in countries like Kenya and Nigeria, a substantial middle class is taking form. But Lamb's overall outlook for the continent is not optimistic...
Hostility between Third World governments and the Western media results from differing conceptions of what news is, Lamb told the seminar--his point underscored when General Joseph Garba, Nigeria's former foreign minister and a seminar participant, accused Lamb and other foreign corresondents of "attempting to destabilize Africa by writing catchy headlines about corruption...
...Sometimes we cover Africa as though it's a four-alarm fire in Brooklyn. We spend too much time on the crisis, the single, flashy event like Bokassa's coronation and not enought on serious issues like Nigeria's return to civilian rule," Lamb says...