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Police first grew suspicious when ZAPU insurgents, who had fought grudgingly alongside ZANU forces during their seven-year guerrilla war against the white-dominated, government of what was formerly Rhodesia, did not turn over all their arms as required when the strife ended in 1979. After a series of armed robberies in the Bulawayo area last year, police arrested a number of former ZAPU guerrillas and persuaded them to reveal the location of the caches...
Seymour Slive, the Fogg's director, may be the single most important reason for the Fogg's success on account of a remarkable hat-trick For half of his seven-year term as director, he travelled around the country to find support for a major new addition to the museum, which President Bok tentatively approved last week, a month after he called it off. This term, he is teaching a popular course on Dutch masters of the 17th century, otherwise known as "Cigars...
...Washington, Assistant Attorney General William Baxter, who nine months earlier had declared his intention to "litigate it to the eyeballs," announced that the Justice Department had reached an out-of-court settlement with A T & T. That ended the Government's seven-year antitrust pursuit of the world's largest corporation (1980 revenues: $51.7 billion). Under the agreement, Ma Bell-as the giant communications company is popularly known-will divest nearly two-thirds of its total assets by spinning off 22 local operating companies. But at the same time, it will retain its long-distance services...
...last May). The country's trade balance registered a $1 billion deficit for the month of October alone. But the President predicted that the employment picture would start improving by 1983. He also pledged efforts to bring inflation down to 10%. The success of his seven-year mandate may depend on his ability to meet those targets. Warns a diplomat in Paris: "If a year goes by and the Socialists haven't turned things around, there could be serious trouble...
...warehousing of 548,500 measures of barley-enough for 18 million meals. Ebla may also have been the first city in the Near East to supplant bartering with use of gold and silver as currency. The complex government was headed by a king, Malik(u), elected peaceably to a seven-year term. A watchdog senate, the wealthy Ab-bu or "elders," wielded backroom power...