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...production of minerals." European allies are already afraid that the U.S., in the name of antiCommunism, may forge closer relations with the apartheid regime. That might lead the Pretoria government to continue stalling on independence for Namibia, slow any liberalization of apartheid laws hi South Africa and stir substantial anti-U.S. sentiment throughout black Africa. Haig's aides insist that no policy has been set and that the Secretary fully understands that the issue is too complex to be seen in simple East-West terms. Says one: "This Administration will surprise you on the Third World...
...gentle killer" who police believe may have committed at least six of the killings of Atlanta's black children in the past six months. The profile, published in the Atlanta Constitution last week and described as the work of FBI psychologists, caused a bit of a stir. According to FBI Spokesman John Glover, it was not released by the FBI and as published is inaccurate "as to details of the bureau's profile...
...those stirring words uttered last week by the Rev. Ian Paisley, 54, the durable firebrand of Ulster politics, had a strangely familiar ring, it was not accidental. Precisely the same call to arms had been issued 69 years earlier by Ulster Hero Sir Edward Carson, when he rallied fellow Protestants fighting to keep their ties to the United Kingdom rather than accept Irish home rule and Catholic domination. Paisley, too, was seeking to stir support among Ulster's 1 million Protestants against any conceivable sellout to the Catholics, and he had an additional motive. With local elections scheduled...
...fact there will be no elections until 1985 at the earliest. Peasants and workers have been largely unaffected by the Sandinistas' attempts to consolidate their eroding political base by imposing media censorship, harassing opposition parties and politicizing the security forces. The regime has also tried to stir up the populace by warning of "threats" from exiled forces in Honduras...
...coming from the man who is now one of the highest-ranking officials of the Catholic Church in France. Indeed, the Pope's choice for Archbishop of Paris, Jean-Marie Lustiger, 54, French-born son of Polish-Jewish Holocaust victims (his mother died at Auschwitz), created quite a stir when announced last week. Lustiger's credentials are, however, impeccably orthodox. Though he wore a Star of David throughout the Nazi occupation of France, Lustiger turned to Catholicism as a very young child, formally converting and changing his first name (from Aaron) at age 14. He studied theology...