Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That murky little war in Zaire entered a new phase last week. For more than a month, President Mobutu Sese Seko has been begging for outside help to stem an invasion of Zaire's southern Shaba region by Angola-based Katangese rebels (TIME, April 18). All of a sudden, aid for Mobutu's regime was pouring in. Morocco sent 1,500 troops and promised 1,500 more to bolster Zaire's seemingly ineffectual 30,000-man army. France airlifted the Moroccans' equipment, along with a handful of French instructors, to Zaire. China contributed supplies, and Egyptian...
Political pressure from New England was another factor in Carter's decision. The region's fishermen were enraged when the State Department at first refused to endorse Coast Guard recommendations that Soviet trawlers be seized. Thundered an editorial in New Hampshire's Manchester Union Leader. "Are we going to crawl to the Russians at the expense of U.S. interests? How about a little immediate action...
...state of Israel 29 years ago today was the fulfillment of the 200-year-old dram of the Jewish people, "to be a free nation in our homeland." The celebration of Israel's independence is marred by continued strife in the Middle East. Although peace in that troubled region appears to be as remote a prospect as ever, some political signals have of late been encouraging. There can be no fonder prayer for Israel in its 30th year than one for a full, final and just peace among the opposing parties--the Arab sates, Israel and the Palestinian people...
...always, that fifth season-"mud" -oozed through Vermont and New Hampshire, where the coo of the mourning dove gave way to the growl of four-wheel-drive vehicles pulling unsuspecting travelers out of the region's annual goo. The 949 frugal residents of Plainfield, Vt., authorized a study to see if they should keep their dirt roads-potholes and all-instead of paving them with expensive, and unprofitable, asphalt...
...things considered, it was not a bad week for Zaïre's beleaguered President, Mobutu Sese Seko. After all, he had been struggling for a month to combat, both politically and militarily, the invasion of his country's Shaba region by exiles who had fled the former secessionist province of Katanga in the mid-1960s. Finally, last week, Mobutu got some important signs of support from his friends...