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...once thriving city is now jittery and almost eerily quiet," reported TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs from Luanda. "For weeks, residents have been dragooned into daily workouts at a dusty soccer field to practice street-fighting techniques; the sessions include being stomped by instructors to toughen stomach muscles. All Angolan males between 18 and 35 have been declared part of a 'Popular Power Militia.' Meanwhile garbage piles up in the streets, attracting scores of scrawny, scavenging dogs and cats abandoned by their departing owners. Most buses have broken down and roadways are littered with wrecked cars...
...bedroom to the infirmary of his personal guard's barracks, 200 yards from the palace, for an attempt to halt the massive internal hemorrhaging. In a three-hour operation, Dr. Manuel Hidalgo Huerta, an old friend, removed one bleeding ulcer from the wall of Franco's stomach and tied a large gastric artery that carries blood to the stomach wall. Franco was also given two gallons of blood, more than replacing his entire blood volume...
Franco's doctors, who numbered 26, placed him on a kidney dialysis machine, which removed the toxins. At week's end they rushed him back into the hospital to remove at least 80% of his stomach to halt recurrent hemorrhaging. But beyond that, there was little that the physicians could do for the rapidly failing dictator except administer digitalis, a commonly used heart-stimulant, to try to overcome his cardiac congestion, and antibiotics, to help fight infection. Anticoagulants, which would normally be given to counteract Franco's phlebitis, were probably ruled out because of his internal hemorrhaging...
Like the greedy little boy whose eyes were bigger than his stomach, oil-rich Nigeria, thanks to a colossal spending binge, is in one dreadful financial mess. The most visible sign of it was outside Apapa, port for the capital city of Lagos. Last week no fewer than 406 ships of all shapes and sizes were backed up waiting their turn for dock space. At least one vessel has been stuck outside Apapa since last February. Maritime experts call it the worst shipping jam in modern history...
...Then someone leaked to reporters the lists of unmarriageables that the ministry had distributed to rabbinical councils and marriage registrars across Israel. The lists include more than 10,000 names. Said Ha'aretz, Israel's leading daily: "It's a scandal which no democratic society can stomach...