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...served as Peruvian Ambassador to Switzerland and to the Soviet Union before first heading his country's delegation to the U.N. in 1971. Waldheim has entrusted Pérez with a number of delicate missions. In 1975, he became the Secretary-General's special representative in strife-torn Cyprus. Four years later, Waldheim appointed Pérez Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs. Most recently, he represented Waldheim in an effort to solve the ticklish issue raised by the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan. In that assignment, which produced no concrete result...
...cats bask in such luxury. Every city, village and farm county has its share of strays and their drifting human equivalent: the cat woman or cat man. On the streets of San Francisco or Chicago or New Orleans or Podunk, loners in torn raincoats carry shopping bags full of cat food to provide for an estimated 15 million "public" cats, on the possibly erroneous assumption that these adaptive animals cannot fend for themselves. Occasionally, however, some bummed-out cats find safe havens...
Restoring peace to Chad will be a formidable task for Mitterrand and his African allies. A vast country, over twice the size of France but with a population of only 4.6 million, Chad has been torn by a civil war between the Muslims of the north and the black Christians of the south for the better part of two decades. That struggle ended, at least temporarily, in March 1979, when Muslim guerrillas, armed by Gaddafi, finally succeeded in overthrowing President Felix Malloum, one of the two black Christians who had run the country since it gained its independence from France...
...child is torn...
Northwestern's Wildcats, outright Big Ten football champs as recently as 1936, were torn last week over what to do: "Stop State at 28" or go for the record. Should Northwestern, beaten in 28 straight games since September 1979, establish an alltime major college losing streak Saturday, or beat Michigan State...