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Impressed, the visitor told Omaha Mayor Eugene Leahy about his upbeat arrival by cab. As a result, all six of the area's taxi companies have agreed to send their drivers to briefings and guided tours of the 54-mile waterway project. "They can be the greatest goodwill, or bad-will, ambassadors," explains the mayor. It remains to be demonstrated whether the indoctrinations will succeed in altering the seemingly irrepressible urge of a taxi driver to knock rather than boost...
Inflexible Will. Mobutu's latest burst of name changing produced a volley of protest from Brazzaville, capital of the former French Middle Congo, which insisted that Mobutu had no right to unilaterally change the name of the Congo River since it is an international waterway and threatened to take the matter to the World Court. Some outsiders were unkind enough to suggest that Mobutu, a missionary-educated Roman Catholic, might well de-Westernize himself by dropping his Christian names. The President, as it happens, had that thought in mind. Last week he announced that he was considering renaming himself...
...Egyptian sniper with a keen eye and an impulse to start a new war could easily have done so last week. Atop a Suez Canal embankment, only 250 yards from peering Egyptian soldiers across the waterway, stood Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan; Major General David Elazar, the new chief of staff; and a cadre of other ranking officers. On an inspection visit to Israel's Bar-Lev Line, Dayan and his commanders seemed to be almost daring the Egyptians to start something. The remarks of various Israeli leaders during the week suggested that...
When the Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana returned from his exploration of the Amazon River four centuries ago, he told of a startling jungle encounter with a race of heroic women warriors. Like the Amazons of Greek mythology, whose name was subsequently given to the great waterway, the jungle women were fierce hunters and fighters. They mated with males captured from neighboring tribes, disposed of their male babies and reared their female offspring in their own martial image. Lacking any other evidence, most experts have long thought that Orellana's tales were fanciful. Now, as a result...
Tale out of School. During the Six-Day War, the book reveals, Dayan wanted the advancing Israeli forces to halt at the Mitla Pass or at Jidi in the Sinai. He opposed their going as far as the Suez Canal because, he argued, the waterway was essential to Egyptian prestige, and the war could never truly end with Israeli forces dug in on its bank. The army, however, reached the banks of the canal before Dayan's orders could effectively stop it. During the 1969-70 "war of attrition," he often visited the Israeli fortifications on the canal, which...