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Mali and Upper Volta, two of Africa's most impoverished nations, are threatening to go to war. The reason: a claim by Mali to a 100-mile stretch of land in the sub-Sahara now belonging to neighboring Upper Volta. In addition to invaluable water supplies, the disputed land may contain rich deposits of oil, natural gas, manganese and titanium. Although black African leaders have tried to mediate the dispute, troops of the two belligerents have been sniping at one another for the past month, and chances of a full-scale conflict are high...
...spokesman for the Senate sub-committee said that the amendment "will be voted on in a block" with other riders to be attached to Senate-Joint Resolution 40, a bill establishing a White House conference on Libraries that passed the House of Representatives last night...
...Where sub shops grace every hill...
Tanaka's regime was already in desperate trouble even before the disclosures. Japan's spectacular economic growth rate has dropped from 11% in 1972 to an estimated sub-zero figure this year. The country's inflation of more than 20% a year is the worst in the industrialized world. Last summer the dominant L.D.P. barely won a two-seat victory in elections for the upper house of the Diet, and Tanaka's personal popularity sank in the polls from a record high of 62% when he took office to a record low of 16% this fall...
Beyond all these legalistic cost/benefit analyses, ITT had another line to sell, one that spoke of ideology, not dollars and cents. ITT noted in its memos on Chile, which are cited in the Senate Multi-National Sub-Committee report, that "we must decide whether we, ourselves, are to return to fundamental principles on which this country [the U.S.] was founded, but also whether we are to stand firm for democracy for the sake of those friends of ours in Latin America who have based their hopes and aspirations on our strength. This is not a time to deny...