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...points of view on basic issues troubling Africa and the Middle East, a contingent of 32 top U.S. businessmen and leaders, accompanied by 18 TIME editors, correspondents and executives, last week completed a 16-day, 8,000-mile trip that began in South Africa and ended in Egypt. The tour was the sixth sponsored by TIME in the past 15 years to various parts of the world with the aim of helping the travelers become better informed about the global problems that so deeply affect us all. Day after day, the group was able to question closely, and at length...
...tour was certainly right on top of events. After seeing Vorster and Soweto residents in South Africa, the travelers arrived in Rhodesia on the historic day that the nation's new executive council met for the first time to begin the process of ending white minority rule. That evening Prime Minister Smith played host to the group at his home, accompanied by his new black colleagues on the council: Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau. Smith called on the U.S. to support his "internal settlement" and rebuked America for what he called its "obsession" with...
Departing Africa for the Middle East, the tour landed in Saudi Arabia for a session with Crown Prince Fahd at his working palace in Riyadh. Sipping bitter cardamom tea, the de facto head of state stressed his country's role as a moderating influence in the Arab world and spoke of its long friendship with the U.S. But the Prince left little doubt that the friendship would be reappraised if Congress denied the Saudis the F-15 fighter-bombers that he claims to need for national defense...
...week of events will include panel discussions on "Lifestyles of Professional Women," and "Women in Prison," a bike tour of scenic feminist and legal landmarkets, and a men's bake sale for the "advancement of women," Schrager said...
...over his nose "Gone east. Be back in another incarnation." Hawkins is a bare survivor of '50s ock; his Hawks went on to better things as The Band while he grew bloated. Ronee Blakelee is as terrified of Dylan in the movie as she was on stage in the tour. Only Blue keeps credence, unstuck in time as he is, recalling the time he took a bus to New York and came back with Camus' The Myth of Sysiphus...