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...tried to set up his own regime in the copper-wealthy province of Katanga and secede from the Congo. After the central government crushed that movement (with U.N. and U.S. help) in 1963, many Katangese soldiers fled across the border to Angola. Eventually they joined forces with the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), largely because their old enemy, Zaïrian President Mobutu Sese Seko, was supporting a rival Angolan guerrilla group, Holden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.). Now, apparently, Agostinho Neto's M.P.L.A. government is helping the Katangese...
Another destabilizing burst of violence came last week in Brazzaville, capital of Zaïre's stridently Marxist neighbor, the People's Republic of the Congo. There an unidentified group of men burst into National Popular Army staff headquarters and gunned down President Marien Ngouabi. A pudgy French-trained army major who survived several previous attempts on his life, Ngouabi, 38, was long a bitter enemy of Zaïre's Mobutu. His tiny (pop. 1.3 million), dirt-poor country has enjoyed Soviet patronage for years, and its airport served in 1975 as a convenient refueling point...
...Popular Dissatisfaction. Marchais was at least half right. The left vote certainly reflected popular dissatisfaction with the inability of the Giscard government to contain inflation and unemployment. It did not necessarily mean that French voters were ready to endorse the "common program" of the Socialists and Communists, which calls for widespread nationalization...
...Bicentennial. According to expert estimates, amateur genealogy now ranks as the third favorite national hobby, after stamp and coin collecting. In fact, says Kenn Stryker-Rodda, associate editor of the venerable New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Record, family history "may now be outstripping philately and numismatics in popular interest." No small part of its allure is that ancestor hunting need not be expensive: the raw material and the rewards are in every family. Moreover, the new pop genealogy addresses itself to the lives, accomplishments, peccadilloes and personalities of flesh-and-blood progenitors, not merely the who-begat-whoms. Says...
Changing Recipes. Bottlers sell $1.5 billion worth of diet soft drinks annually. That is 15% of the total U.S. soft-drink market, and has been the fastest growing segment, thanks to heavy advertising and a weight-conscious citizenry. The most popular labels: Tab (made by Coca-Cola), Diet Pepsi, Sugar Free 7Up and Dr Pepper, and Diet Rite Cola. Now producers may be forced to change their recipes, perhaps adding small amounts of sugar-and calories...