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PARIS--A DC-10 airliner bound from the Congo to Paris with 170 people aboard disappeared on Tuesday, probably over the West African country of Niger, the French airline UTA said...
...airline said it believed the search focused on Niger, along the path the plane would have taken, and could involve military forces from Chad, Niger and France, which has a small force in Chad...
...down the continent face spending Christmas Eve on empty stomachs. Many will surely die unless food shipments arrive early in 1988. The United Nations' World Food Program puts relief requirements for 15 needy countries at 2.7 million metric tons (the 15: Angola, Botswana, Chad, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia and Zimbabwe). Only half of this goal has been met so far by donors...
...asserted that the meeting was not meant to be a "pledging session." The borrowers, their request to increase development assistance by 130%, to $45 billion, and debt relief by at least $35 billion unmet, expressed disappointment. "What we hear is far from the concrete proposals we were expecting," said Niger's Ide Oumarou, secretary-general of the Organization of African Unity...
...acquire and transfer to Islamabad technology from Western Europe and North America. Items in the covert pipeline ranged from special steel tubing to precision measuring equipment to specialized electronics. In 1978, some 400 tons of uranium oxide, the basic feedstock in producing enriched uranium, was secretly obtained from Niger, with the connivance of Libya...