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Boumediene is even trying to patch up relations with Egypt's Nasser, who was so miffed by Boumediene's overthrow of President Ahmed ben Bella 18 months ago that he personally quashed a conference of neutral nations sched uled for Algeria. Last month Boumediene made his first state visit to Cairo, and suddenly the two Arab leaders were touring the capital like old friends-all smiles...
...Moley's reckoning, the death occurred in 1935, as the President set course for reelection. During his first years in office, Roosevelt had performed a remarkable patch job on a sick economy. But the closing of the banks, the departure of the gold standard, the proliferation of alphabetical emollient agencies - the AAA, the CCC, the SEC, the WPA, the NRA - had done more than restore public confidence. In Roosevelt's mind, Moley says, the relative success of these measures supported the conviction that he was a political messiah, the only man who could conduct the country...
...rhetoric on the other side has the epic calm of sociological jargon. Partisans of compulsory national service look at their plan as a chance to sort, patch and mold human stock. Margaret Mead, the anthropologist, puts it this way: "Universal national service would make it possible to assay the defects and potentialities of every young American on the threshold of adulthood...
Fair & Predictable. Most of the excitement is bound to be on the foreign front. There will be attempts to patch up relations with Charles de Gaulle, perhaps at a cost of some of Bonn's close dependence on the U.S. Says Willy Brandt: "In Washington, France and Germany are stronger when they have good relations than when each stands alone." Still, both Kiesinger and Brandt consider themselves friends of the U.S., do not intend Germany to become a less faithful member of NATO...
...light plane buzzed through the clear morning air above Kenya's Tsavo National Park. In the rolling bushland below grazed herds of zebra, kudu, oryx and hartebeest, swishing away flies with their tails. Suddenly, from the middle of a patch of thorn trees, flashed the white flick of an egret, constant companion of the African elephant. It was what the pilot had been looking for. He radioed the position to the ground, and within minutes a helicopter arrived. Two white hunters climbed out and disappeared into the tangle of thorn trees. There was a burst of high-powered rifle...