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...equivalents of snapshots and salon portraits, multiple exposures to analyze the flight of pigeons and the strides of men, romanticized landscapes and still lifes clearly derived from painting, as well as reportage on everything from war to travel and exploration, from Mont Blanc to the Crimea to the Nile. A photographic task force was even commissioned by the French government to rove the country photographing historic monuments (rather like Roy Stryker's famous teams in the U.S. during the 1930s Depression). One of the finest results is a highly abstract portrait of a row of flying buttresses at Rheims...
First came a two-hour tête-à-tête with Anwar Sadat, at the Egyptian President's villa in his home village of Mit Abu el Kom in the Nile delta. Then there was a hastily arranged New Year's Day flight to Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, for talks with President Mohammed Siad Barre. After more discussions with top Egyptian officials in Cairo, Henry Kissinger jetted at week's end to Jerusalem for a three-day visit that was to include a dinner given by Israel's Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir...
Meanwhile, the heavyweight varisty crew raced in Luxor and Cairo on December 23, 27, and 28, finishing third in all its meets. But, returning crew members said, the excitement of their vacation on the Nile eclipsed their disappointment about the races...
...heavyweight crew finished third, behind the United States Olympic crew and the University of Washington, in the tenth annual International Nile Regatta in Cairo, Egypt...
Already, thousands of people in the parched northeastern region of Karamoja have starved to death. Says Melissa Wells, head of the U.N. development program in Uganda: "Famine is looming in West Nile as well." There are severe food shortages even in Kampala, where the average wage is only $67 a month. A bunch of bananas, a staple, sells for $27. Beer is $20 a bottle...