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...selection of a Secretary-General for the five-year term that begins Jan. 1. The People's Republic of China had repeatedly vetoed the incumbent, Kurt Waldheim of Austria, 62, who was vying for an unprecedented third term. Just as consistently, the U.S. had nixed his challenger, Tanzanian Foreign Minister Salim Ahmed Salim, 39. Last week, even though there was no puff of white smoke billowing from the 39-story marble-and-glass tower on New York City's East River, the deadlock was broken...
...said, "My main concern and endeavor will be what it has always been, peace among nations." Given Pérez's age, U.N. officials do not expect him to seek a second term. That should be a welcome consolation prize for the other candidates, especially Salim. The Tanzanian, who will be only 44 when the next vote comes up, no doubt still hopes to be the first African to enjoy the view from the spacious office on the U.N.'s 38th floor...
...Uganda, the Secretary-General wrote that "in order to facilitate he task of the council," he was withdrawing his name from the next round of balloting, which could take place next week. The next move seemed to depend on Waldheim's challenger on each of the previous ballots, Tanzanian Foreign Minister Salim Ahmed Salim, 39. But the imbroglio may continue right up to and perhaps beyond the Dec. 31 expiration of Waldheim's current term...
Currently Moore is working on a book on the Tanzanian Chagga tribe. For the past 13 years she has studied changes in the Chaggan legal system and culture since 1900 and the tribe's success in adapting to the modern world...
...small groups of government soldiers. Diplomats believe that the two main groups-the Uganda Freedom Movement, composed mainly of Obote-hating Baganda tribesmen, and the People's Revolutionary Army led by ex-Defense Minister Yoweri Museveni-are biding their time until June. That is when the 10,000 Tanzanian troops who remained in Uganda after they helped to overthrow Amin in 1979 are scheduled to be withdrawn. Their departure will leave a dangerous power vacuum. Speculates a Western diplomat: "Any of three things could happen. Obote might hang on. The guerrillas might overthrow him. Or he might be ousted...