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Miniseries Thanks to Roots, the networks are rushing through bestsellers faster than an Evelyn Wood graduate. In addition to Washington: Behind Closed Doors, ABC will crank out mini-series based on Gail Sheehy's Passages and Herman Wouk's The Winds of War. Roots II will follow Kunta Kinte's descendants into modern times...
...Taiwan's jitters are diplomatic, not economic. Taiwan is today a mini-industrial power. Although the island's population-16.6 million-is only one-fiftieth of mainland China's, its trade with the U.S. is 14 times greater than that of its huge neighbor-nearly $5 billion last year. Taiwan's robust growth rate-more than 10% in most of the years since the 1960s-has boosted its G.N.P. to just over $17 billion. During the worldwide recession of 1974-75, inflation whirled up to a 40% annual rate for a while, but the regime...
Publicly, Egypt insisted that its bitter four-day mini-war with Libya (TIME, Aug. 1) had been no more than a minor border skirmish. A series of frontier infiltrations and espionage attempts had forced Cairo to teach Libya's erratic strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, a lesson in good manners. Rather like a stern uncle rebuking a wayward nephew, President Anwar Sadat described Gaddafi as "a second Napoleon" and "just a child"-inspiring Tripoli spokesmen to dismiss the Egyptian President as "a Zionist tool...
...growing complexity of East-West power games around the Horn of Africa, relations between Cairo and Tripoli remained tense last week, even though the shooting had stopped. At the urging of Arab peacemakers, in particular Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, both sides agreed to a mini-summit to settle the miniwar. There was no certainty that either Sadat or Gaddafi-who was mysteriously out of public view during the fighting -would attend. The mood was surly, particularly since losses appeared to have been high for so brief...
...York City's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.: "Everybody's hyper. I mean, first you are worried about the economy's going to be too strong and you are going to have inflation, and then you worry, my God, we are going to drop off into a mini-recession or worse. The worries change, but what remains constant is the worry -a generalized kind of worry, a malaise, a free-floating anxiety...