Word: swaziland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Union took three years to get right. Childs waited out anxious months for Ricketts' continued collaboration, while he worked on Boomtown. Mostly on sheer instinct, she went from Los Angeles to Swaziland and Zambia to search out a choir and found two. The Sibane Semaswati Singers and the New Generation, who show no traces of a Paul Simon-Graceland influence, are on five of the album's tracks, lending rhythmic backbone whenever Childs' writing tends too much toward the brittle. They also summon ironic memories from Childs' past, casting a kind of sanctified shadow across a childhood spent within...
...continent face spending Christmas Eve on empty stomachs. Many will surely die unless food shipments arrive early in 1988. The United Nations' World Food Program puts relief requirements for 15 needy countries at 2.7 million metric tons (the 15: Angola, Botswana, Chad, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia and Zimbabwe). Only half of this goal has been met so far by donors...
...most sensitive foreign responsibility that the young King inherited is landlocked Swaziland's relationship with its powerful neighbor, South Africa. The economies of the two countries are closely linked, as are their respective police and intelligence agencies. With a gross national product of $65 billion, in contrast to Swaziland's $490 million, South Africa is the smaller country's principal trading partner and its sole supplier of oil, gasoline, electricity and most consumer goods. In exchange for South African economic cooperation, Swaziland has closely policed the activities of antiapartheid African National Congress militants within its borders. A few weeks...
...Gospel Church, and has kept him locked up ever since. The proselytizing foreigner, who is expected to appear in court this month, faces charges of sedition for daring to suggest that certain Swazi traditions, such as the reed-dance ceremony, might be "ungodly and immoral." As the people of Swaziland are learning, Fire Eyes does not take lightly any kind of disrespect...
...recovered from a paralyzing strike, the Philippines suffers the most serious military challenge yet to its 18- month- old government. -- Managua scores points on the public relations battlefield. -- The visit of East Germany' s Erich Honecker to the West stirs hope in Bonn but concern elsewhere. -- The King of Swaziland, the world' s youngest reigning monarch...