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...residence overlooking the mud flats at the edge of Djibouti harbor. As a 21-gun salute boomed out and fireworks lit up the night sky, the French Territory of the Afars and Issas (T.F.A.I.) became the Republic of Djibouti, Africa's 50th independent state. The most notable visitor present at the celebrations: President Valèry Giscard d'Estaing, who was scheduled to fly in from Paris for a few hours to offer congratulations. The newborn republic faces a most uncertain future. Last week TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs visited Djibouti and cabled this report...
Like leaders of other governments along the tour, Venezuela's President Carlos Andrés Pérez said he was "pleasantly surprised" by the "extraordinary woman." Brazilian officials gave their poised and well-briefed visitor high marks for her meetings with President Ernesto Geisel. Said one diplomat: "This lady knows what she's talking about. She asks the right questions and has the right answers. There's no fooling around." Speaking her mind, the First Lady re-emphasized to Geisel her husband's concern about nuclear proliferation. The Brazilians resent Carter's opposition...
Even before official publication, the report has drawn fire. Although the Vatican and the U.S. conference of bishops declined any formal comment, an editorial in Our Sunday Visitor, the biggest national Catholic weekly, fulminated that the report "exposes a festering wound in the church." William May, a Catholic University lay professor of morals, joined with five other conservative scholars to issue a statement condemning the report as "partisan in outlook, poor in scholarship, weak in argumentation, fallacious in its conclusions." Kosnik and his committee members are refusing to answer such criticisms until after next week's meeting...
Cutting Costs. At Williamsburg, attendance seems to be rising now after a disastrous first quarter of 1977. But the price of an adult admission ticket is only $6.50, and it costs the foundation about $8 more to shepherd a visitor through. So the foundation is seeking new ways to cut costs and raise money. It is building a more centrally located visitor center to slash its gas bills by two-thirds, and for the first time is bidding for group tours to save on expenses for bus fuel and guides. Guests checking into Colonial Williamsburg hotels are now greeted...
...signs stuck behind the windshield. On a recent Sunday, for example, one man was trying to sell his 1977 Lada (a Soviet-built Fiat), with 6,000 kilometers on the clock, for $11,000; new-when available-the car sells for $5,570. "It's crazy," said one visitor to the car mart, adding, "a lot of things are like that in Poland...