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...called for creation of a U.N.-supervised agency that would build up reserve stocks of petroleum and grains. The agency would probably sell those stocks to hard-up nations if supplies got tight or market prices prohibitively high. Jobert's plan could help answer U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's call for an "overall and global" formula to give raw-materials-producing nations a fair price for their products without bankrupting their customers. But careful evaluation of serious plans is not likely to occur in the highly charged political atmosphere of the special session...
Visitors to the area, like U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, are visibly shaken by what they see: emaciated adults, children with distended bellies, filthy refugee camps where overcrowding has triggered epidemics of measles, influenza and cholera. Reports TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs, who has logged 7,000 miles touring the drought area: "There are experts with many years' experience in the Sahel who see no end in sight to the cycle of drought, famine and death. The Sahel's Tuareg nomads have a saying, 'When the camel collapses, the game is over.' For them, now clustered...
...Once, disturbed by a rash of burglaries in Bangui, he led a group of soldiers armed with clubs to the central prison. There he watched as 45 convicted thieves were beaten and left, brutally wounded, to roast for six hours under the tropical sun. When U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim protested the atrocity, Bokassa called him "a pimp" and "a colonialist" for daring to intervene...
...expected the positioning of the six participants to be alphabetical, which meant that its logical place would be between Egypt and Jordan. Instead, after seven tables were drawn up in a circle in the muraled Council Chamber of the palace, Israel found itself seated between Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and the empty seats reserved for the boycotting Syrians. Perhaps symbolically, however, the controversy was quickly settled by putting the Russian delegation next to Israel. That picayune beginning to the historic conference solved, the meeting proceeded smoothly to opening speeches that for the most part eloquently expressed the world...
...aimed at reducing the chances of those hostilities and at making sure that Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Israel show up at the peace conference scheduled to convene on Dec. 18 at Geneva. There they will be joined by the U.S., the Soviet Union and U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. Although Egypt late last week declared that it would attend the Geneva conference, it at first publicly hinted that it might not unless Israel first withdraws some of its troops from the west bank of the Suez Canal. Israel however has refused to budge until Egypt removes most of its troops...