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Savimbi's forces have stayed intact by relying on well-tested guerrilla survival tactics. To travel safely on roads that may be mined, UNITA convoys follow herds of elephants or buffalo; if these animated mine detectors trigger an explosion, the guerrillas know not only that the way is clear, but also that they are going to eat well. Now that large areas of south Angola are coming under its control, UNITA is setting up schools and agricultural cooperatives. But for the most part, Savimbi's forces are constantly on the move, carrying their possessions on their backs...
DIED. Gordon M. Smith, 72, foresighted director of Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery from 1955 to 1973; of a heart attack; in Buffalo. By boldly purchasing works by such contemporary painters as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns and Arshile Gorky before they were widely bought by larger, more affluent museums, Smith and the museum's angel, Woolworth Heir Seymour H. Knox, assembled a collection of abstract expressionist art that is virtually unsurpassed...
...eleven years, started dishing chow for shearing crews "as soon as I could reach the top of the stove." Later she served three meals a day for 300 people at a Philadelphia convent. She now caters to three children and a businessman husband, Paul, whose family in Buffalo "never had less than six in help." Attorney Robert Holland, who has 225 cases of wine in the cellar of his house, regards gourmet cooking as a way of shaping "taste in the home." He proudly notes that his son Justin, 6, up and ordered escargots at a recent restaurant meal. Justin...
...trade surplus in the first three months of this year totaled $2.7 billion, vs. $6.7 billion in the same period last year. Generally Carter and Ohira hit it off fairly well. Honoring Ohira's request for a "truly American meal," the President served up a barbecued buffalo dinner on the White House grounds, with the Texas barbecue sauce stirred up by the President's chief trade negotiator, Robert Strauss...
...Buffalo 3, Pittsburgh...