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...money supply as the golden elixir for economic health-flows through every line of the Thatcher government's budget for 1980. The proposed budget, which is virtually assured of passage, was presented last week to a grim session of the House of Commons by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe, and the reactions it produced ranged from apprehension to bitterness...
...most hostile wastes for nearly 50 years with little more than the native garb on his back, some medicines, a few books, a camera and a rifle. Thesiger, now almost 70 and based in Kenya, is the last of the exotic British adventurer-writers whose exclusive number included Sir Richard Burton and T.E. Lawrence. These chameleons assumed the language, dress and habits of their tribal hosts for deeply emotional as well as practical reasons. "Like many English travelers," Thesiger confesses, "I find it difficult to live for long periods with my own kind...
Most of the official and unofficial foreign observers, including British Election Commissioner Sir John Boynton, concluded that the elections had been surprisingly free and fair. That judgment was shared by the Presidents of the so-called frontline African states (Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana, Angola, Tanzania), who gave the guerrillas crucial support during the war. Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere had earlier suggested that the British had rigged the vote in favor of Muzorewa. Celebrating Mugabe's victory with a champagne toast, Nyerere declared: "This is not the first time I have been proved wrong...
...airhitcher's take-off is exhilirating--a rush of relief and smugness accompanying the first jolt and momentary weightlessness. His dress is required--tie, with an Oxford shirt and pressed pants. His approach is crucial--an earnest, American look-in-the-eye and the words, "Excuse me sir, I'm a college student who must get back east as fast as possible. May I have a ride?" The outcome varies from a 48-hour wait in the burning sterility of the Salt Lake City International Airport to a quick hop across America in three aircraft...
...airport terminal was a series of concrete blocks set on a butte overlooking Billings. Winds buffetted dead and splayed planes sitting on the cracked runway. A lone, bearded pilot inspected his single-engine Cessna 140. "Excuse me sir, I'm a college student who must get back East as fast as possible. May I have a ride...