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Nibbling Away. Taking a few prisoners does not quite mean winning a war. Nonetheless, the Zaïrian strongman had good reason to feel buoyant last week. Bolstered by 1,500 crack Moroccan troops, le Guide's forces appeared at last to have won a round in a murky conflict that some Africans have dubbed "the Termite War." Neither side seemed able to do any more than nibble away at the other. But last week government troops not only halted the advance of the ragtag invasion army toward Kolwezi, the center of Zaïre's copper-mining...
Mobutu also unveiled a remarkable secret weapon in the war: pygmy power. Some 150 "expert pygmy bowmen" -as a Zaïrian official described them -were sent to Shaba to infiltrate enemy lines. The diminutive tribesmen (average height under 5 ft.) were praised by one government newspaper as "formidably efficient units who can move silently and well against the enemy." Although they were issued rifles, most pygmies prefer carrying home-made bows that shoot arrows whose tips are coated with a lethal drug (derived from local plants), which kills the monkeys that they hunt for food. Skeptical foreign correspondents could...
...singular display of gall, Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev last week warned other nations against "meddling" in the Zaïrian war. Although there is no proof of direct Soviet involvement, it seems more and more certain that the Katangese rebels were armed and aided by Moscow's client, Angola, if not by the Cubans in that country...
Even without the services of long jumper Kathy Rice, Radcliffe dominated the event. Ellen Hart, Sue Harper and Rian Smith finished first, second and third, respectively...
Saturday's varsity contest was the first race for novices Rian Smith and Nancy Karabrok. "The experience against a crew like B.U. will certainly make a difference," said...