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...held the post since 1982. But to boost ratings and, NBC said, to exploit Brokaw's skills as a reporter, the network plans to send him out on the road far more often: at least three times a month. Whenever he is away, Pauley will serve as "sub-anchor." Says Nightly News executive producer Steve Friedman: "Tom will be at the People's Congress in Moscow in July and then the NATO summit in London, but he'll be doing more than the big news on the road. We'll be trying to find the not-so-obvious things...
...Nightly News executive producer Bill Wheatley about a month ago with Friedman, a volatile former executive producer of Today. But because Brokaw and Pauley have been close friends since * working together on Today, he is to all appearances comfortable with her assignment, at least as long as she remains sub-anchor. "Read my lips: nothing has changed," says Brokaw. "There will be internal restructuring, but we will still be covering the news. Jane will liberate me, in a way." Brokaw points out, however, that "I can't be on the road any more than I was last year...
...Sub-Saharan Africa is ill prepared for democratic government for other reasons as well. These countries lack the critical mass of educated voters that is essential. They have few democratic roots. "There is no concept of a loyal opposition," notes Smith Hempstone, the U.S. ambassador to Kenya. "Dissent is equated with sedition." Most debilitating, though, is their sheer poverty, which makes it extremely difficult for a pluralist political system to thrive. Says Hempstone: "Africa missed the industrial revolution, which formed the basis of modern democracy in the West...
...will survive long if Africa's evident destiny -- to drown in debt -- is not reversed, and that will require enormous assistance from abroad. With its current debt of $135 billion roughly equivalent to its gross national product and its debt-service obligations equal to half its export earnings, sub-Saharan Africa faces an intolerable situation that has produced instability and promises to breed more. If the West really wants to see democracy take root, it must first give a helping hand to the continent's economy...
...enough, ethnic tensions that have provoked violence in other parts of Africa have rarely disturbed Kenya's 27 years of independence, even though the country encompasses more than 40 major tribes. And Kenya has maintained economic growth in recent years % at 3% to 5% annually, up to twice the sub-Saharan average. "We are being asked to risk that which we have so painstakingly built in order to lead up to some generalized, universal prescription of political behavior," Moi said in a second rebuttal to Hempstone...