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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think the problem should be solved by African and Western countries working together. In fact, they are also a little nervous about being caught in Zaïre in the event of another rebel attack. In addition to Morocco, at least two black African states, Senegal and the Ivory Coast, seem prepared to send some troops into Zaïre. Morocco's King Hassan II, helped save Mobutu in 1977 by sending a detachment during a previous rebel assault on Shaba. After a visit by Mobutu, Hassan announced that he would dispatch a contingent to Zaïre that would be "placed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZAIRE: Post-Mortem on an Invasion | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...view of top State Department officials, there is another reason for being nicer to Turkey: the Turks seem more flexible than the Greeks on the Cyprus dispute. In April the Turks submitted to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim a 34-page outline of proposals for settling the future of the island. In essence, the Turkish plan calls for a "bicommunal, bizonal" federal government for Cyprus with two legislative assemblies dealing separately with the domestic affairs of their respective populations, and jointly with external affairs and defense. In addition, there would be two Presidents, one Turkish and one Greek, who would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MEDITERRANEAN: The West's Ragged Edge | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...long, languid looks. Chicago schools have for years been teaching environmental science, with emphasis on energy conservation. Mike Palatnik, a teacher at Sullivan High School, made an intriguing discovery: "Kids want cars and material things, particularly boys. They are often hard to reach. Girls, on the other hand, seem to have more guilt about wasting energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENERGY: Learning the Conservation ABCs | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...camera he may not seem the type, but on-camera Richard Burton cuts a fine figure as a priest. After playing a man of the cloth on a devilish mission in Exorcist II: The Heretic, Burton has once again put on his cleric's collar, in Absolution. This time he plays Father Goddard, an opinionated Jesuit priest at a Roman Catholic boys' school in England. Trouble arises when his favorite student tells him in confession that he has committed murder. To get away from such traumas, Burton likes to relax on the set by tossing a cricket ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 12, 1978 | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...funny how the night moves When you just don't seem to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hang Left out of Nutbush: Hang Left out of Nutbush | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

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