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...that other moderate African states would help, Morocco's King Hassan II agreed to come to the rescue, as he had done following a similar raid on Shaba by Katangese rebels a year earlier. The King, however, is opposed to a plan, favored by French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, to create a permanent pan-African military force under Western auspices that would be available for service in future emergencies in Zaïre and elsewhere on the continent...
...months since he became France's Premier, former Economics Professor Raymond Barre has earned a reputation as a formidable inflation fighter. His success in keeping prices down was crucial in helping President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's center-right coalition win last March's bitter elections. Yet the professor's record is beginning to tarnish. Since December, when consumer prices rose at an annual rate of only 3.7%, inflation has worsened every month, to an alarming rate of 14% during April...
They pulled up to the United Nations' glassy Manhattan headquarters by the limousine load-President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing of France, Premier Thorbjörn Falldin of Sweden, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada. All together, 20 heads of state or government were scheduled to drop in on the five-week-long proceedings. The occasion that brought them: an unprecedented session of the 149-member General Assembly devoted solely to disarmament, the largest group ever convened in an attempt to reverse the world's steady accumulation of ever more and deadlier weapons...
...area by the French. Last week's invasion was not only bigger and better planned; it was also, according to Washington, actively supported by Cuban troops who have been training the F.L.N.C. guerrillas in Angola. Responding to an urgent telephone plea from Mobutu, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing dispatched 1,200 Foreign Legion paratroopers to Shaba. Belgian Premier Léo Tindemans sent another contingent of paras to help airlift 3,000 Europeans from Kolwezi. Units of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C., were placed on alert, and the White House announced...
...player on a prison team, gives him a tryout and watches him become a star. Which is just how Detroit Tigers All-Star Outfielder Ron LeFlore was discovered by New York Yankees Manager Billy Martin, during his stint at the helm of the Tigers. Now LeFlore's sto ry, One in a Million, will make it to the screen as a CBS-TV movie. LeFlore is played by LeVar Burton (Roots), and Billy Martin by-who else?-Billy Martin. Has he made a hit on camera? Says Burton: "He follows instructions like a Little Leaguer at tryouts. You know...