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Beyond tribal rivalries, whose significance is problematic, there are two key issues: the territorial integrity of Angola and the nature of its path to economic development. Angola could be partitioned along political tribal geographical lines: the Bakongo and the Ovimbundu might rejoin their countrymen to the north and the south, leaving an MPLA rump consisting of Luanda and its hinterland. This solution is certain to be opposed by responsible African leaders, such as Kaunda of Zambia and Nyerere of Tanzania, but would be welcomed by South Africa...
...system seemed to work well for a while. Now, however, a growing number of Europeans are concluding that floating rates have been a failure. The harshest critic has been France, which last week ceased to allow the franc to float freely against all other money. Instead, it will rejoin a European fixed-rate scheme known as the snake-that ties the values of seven currencies to each other...
...girls meet Rafferty in a park where he has gone to spend his lunch hour sucking on his pint of rye. They inexplicably abduct him (using a gun loaded with blanks), let him escape and then permit him to rejoin them when he decides that careening around the country may be more interesting than what he has been doing...
...separate career illustrates a paradox of ensemble playing. Four men with enough talent and discipline to play as one usually want to be heard alone too. Lewis, 54, the composer-arranger, said emphatically that the break was permanent, but it is hard not to hope that the group will rejoin for records if not for concerts...
...country that was writhing beneath the oppressive weight of a junta, and even now they speak of "the consulate" and "the CIA" in a threatened manner. They were able to come here because they generally were rich and could afford the expensive American education. But they say they will rejoin their culture as soon as they can, and in the meantime they follow the daily political developments in their homeland with a morbid interest. And they say they became radical as the students in their own homeland became radical over the last few years...