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Even in last week's peaceful gathering, there were inevitable reminders of the strife that now rages through the tiny, heavily populated country. As party officials raised their arms to wave or flash victory signs, their shirts rode up to reveal the black barrels of pistols-standard equipment in a campaign in which threats of death vie with leaflets and posters as tools of political persuasion...
Such breathlessly gee-whiz reportage will inevitably strike many people as decidedly off-key in a time of economic uncertainty and strife. A poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc. reported in December that among other disappointments, Americans by and large feel worse off today than they did a year ago. Nor will Kahn's profile win awards for methodology. Not one of the dozen or so "typical" Americans was quoted, say, while shuffling along an unemployment line. And some readers may quarrel with the Panglossian assessment of the California raisin farmer who beams...
...sagging on their axles. "The soldiers don't dare come up the road," said one of the passengers as they headed toward a highway where los muchachos?the guerrillas?were collecting "war taxes" from passing vehicles. Along the roadside lay the now commonplace evidence of the country's brutal strife: hacked and mutilated carcasses of the dead, some men, some teenagers. Newsmen could not determine why they were killed, or by whom. But one stripped corpse of a youth, lying face down, had a short rope around the neck?a telltale sign often left behind by the national guard...
...agreeing to set a production ceiling of 18.5 million bbl. per day, down from 19.2 million bbl. per day currently, and to parcel out the resulting cuts. That is something that the fiercely nationalistic members of the organization have never before managed to achieve. Many Western analysts, emboldened by strife-torn OPEC's recent setbacks, are predicting that the effort will fail, putting further pressure on prices, which have already slipped by about 3.6% in the past year, to an average of $33.55 per bbl. Others, recalling OPEC'sS clout during the 1970s, are more wary. Says Standard...
Police first grew suspicious when ZAPU insurgents, who had fought grudgingly alongside ZANU forces during their seven-year guerrilla war against the white-dominated, government of what was formerly Rhodesia, did not turn over all their arms as required when the strife ended in 1979. After a series of armed robberies in the Bulawayo area last year, police arrested a number of former ZAPU guerrillas and persuaded them to reveal the location of the caches...