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Shaba's newly appointed military governor, Singa Boyenge Mosrmbry, tried to sound a positive note. "I am always an optimist," he said last week. "Next year the situation will be completely changed. The whites will be back by August or September." Perhaps so. But those who have remained are demanding a special payment of $1,000 a month in "danger money," the right to bear private arms, guarantees of evacuation "on demand" and, more significantly, a foreign military garrison. The expatriates have no confidence in the ability of the Zaïrian army to ward off another rebel attack...
Through back-room cajolery, a few public threats and even a martini lunch or two, Bob Strauss has never failed at a public challenge yet. Even with the inflation odds running against him, he is an optimist and just recently he got hold of something in the fog. One morning Strauss told Carter that he was convinced the President's public threats to veto the emergency farm bill had led to the bill's strangulation in Congress, and this gave moneymen hope that Carter was going to be tough, and then this helped rally the stock market. Carter...
...hopes to become the first golfer in history to win the modern Grand Slam−the Masters, the P.G.A. and the British and U.S. Opens−in the same year. He is a quarter of the way there. Says he: "Don't say I'm an eternal optimist. I'm a positive thinker." And, of course, he will be using his new technique on the greens, ignoring the fact that smooth putting strokes are like fickle women−here today, gone tomorrow−and the older a man gets, the quicker they go. Gary Player would...
Stone, who describes himself as a "resistant optimist," founded and wrote the I.F. Stone Weekly from 1953 until 1971 when he retired and halted the publication of the newspaper. He received an honorary doctorate from Amherst College and Brown University and is now an visiting scholar at American University in Washington...
With another six months of the model-year ahead, only the most cockeyed optimist would feel certain that the present strong industry sales trend will continue. But auto executives are ever positive. The fact that dealer inventories are at an alltime record of more than 2 million cars does not bother them. "That's about a 60-day supply, which is normal, given the present selling rate," says Pontiac General Manager Alex Mair. To demonstrate their confidence, the carmakers have scheduled production of some 850,000 vehicles this month, the highest for the industry in any April...