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...broadcasting world increasingly seems like a tower of babble. News inter viewers pose tough questions for high Administration officials; ex-game show hosts lob softballs at starlets plugging their latest movies; snarling radio talk-meisters shout angry opinions on everything from Ronald Reagan to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Amid this flood of verbiage, King provides a refreshing strain of intelligent, graceful conversation. For 71/2 years, that conversation has been largely confined to the middle of the night, on the Mutual Radio Network's Larry King Show. Now King has ventured into prime-time TV as host of a nightly talk show...
...countries suffer from food shortages and for once, the O.A.U. leaders subordinated political differences to concentrate on solving their common problem. The group resolved to "get to the root of Africa's food and agricultural crisis" by developing crash and long-range programs. Sudan's leader, General Abdul Rahman Suwar al Dahab, told the group that Western emergency relief, "no matter how massive," could not cure the "inherent ailment in the economies of our countries." Said he: "Self-reliance is the most crucial factor if we are to address ourselves squarely and pragmatically to this issue...
...SWORN IN. JALAL TALABANI, 71, GHAZI YAWAR, 47, and ADEL ABDUL MAHDI, 61, as Iraq's first democratically-elected President and Vice-Presidents in more than half a century; in Baghdad. Talabani, who spent years fighting the regime of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as the head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, becomes the first Kurdish president of an Arab-dominated country; Yawar is a tribal leader of the Sunni Muslim minority. The announcements, along with the naming of Shi'ite politician Ibrahim Jaafari, 58, as Prime Minister, followed nine weeks of deadlock in Iraq's parliament since...
Diehards remain, as evidenced by several ambushes in southern Afghanistan last week, one of which injured two G.I.s. A former Taliban governor, Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi, told TIME he is trying to persuade former comrades to give up their guns, but some are determined to keep fighting. "The Taliban have their backs to the wall," he said, "and they're still dangerous." --By Tim McGirk
...preacher has set up a small school in Omar's deserted madrasah, and girls are being taught there-unthinkable when Omar ran the place. Some villagers are now embarrassed by their link to Omar. Says a driver in the bazaar, "Truth is, Omar wasn't really one of us." Abdul Azzaq, a local judge, says "We're no longer afraid of the Taliban. Maybe they can lay a mine or shoot someone, but they're not strong enough to attack." For the sake of Afghanistan's long-suffering people, pray that he's right...