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...make matters worse, for the past seven years Mozambique (pop. 14 million) has been beset by drought and widespread starvation. In 1983, an estimated one-third of Mozambique's population did not have enough to eat. As many as 100,000 died. The situation has stabilized, but Mozambique remains one of the largest food-aid recipients in Africa. "People are not dying so much anymore," says a CARE worker in Maputo. "But they are fleeing. They are barefoot and wandering...
...buses were the bride's uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, her aunt Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, TV Actress Susan Saint James, I CBS's 60 Minutes Correspondent Diane Sawyer, NBC Newscaster Tom Brokaw, ABC Interviewer Barbara Walters, Columnist Art Buchwald and Singer Andy Williams. Flattopped Actress Grace Jones and Pop Artist Andy Warhol showed up late...
...first tremors struck at 11:55 a.m. Friday. By nightfall El Salvador's capital, San Salvador (pop. 800,000), was virtually cut off from the rest of the world, plunged into darkness and littered with rubble. Though the quake, at 5.2 to 5.4 on the Richter scale, was considerably weaker than the 8.1 killer that leveled much of Mexico City last fall, it appears to have wrought terrible destruction...
...plant last week, Mark Daniel and his co-workers played a couple of games of softball, then went out for pizza and a few beers. But the scene was not Detroit or any other American factory town. Instead, the unlikely site of Daniel's work and play was Hofu (pop. 120,000), a city 56 miles southwest of Hiroshima in Japan. Daniel, along with 47 other Americans who work for the U.S. subsidiary of Mazda, the third largest Japanese automaker, was finishing up a four-week stint at the firm's Hofu assembly plant. Their goal: to learn...
...witness's words read back by a court reporter. There was no doubt: Country-and-Western Star Kenny Rogers had said he made more than $150 million in the past ten years. No mere show-biz ostentation, his testimony was meant to show the earning power of a pop music talent, specifically that of Singer-Songwriter Harry Chapin, who was killed in 1981, when his auto was hit by a truck. His widow, Sandy Chapin, was suing the trucking company for $25 million in potential earnings; last week the jury in a Brooklyn, N.Y. federal court awarded her $7.2 million...