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...preliminaries are finally over. Ever since he upset George Foreman in Zaïre last October to regain the world heavyweight championship, Muhammad Ali has been beefing up his bank account at the expense of harmless opponents. First he played with Chuck Wepner in Cleveland for $1.5 million, then humiliated Ron Lyle in Las Vegas for $1 million. Last week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he pocketed $2.5 million with an easy 15-round decision over European Heavyweight Champ Joe Bugner. In fact, his toughest opponents in Kuala Lumpur were the sopping 118° under the ring lights and the near...
...business is boxing. In less than two years, King has put together four heavyweight championship bouts, including the $10 million George Foreman v. Muhammad Ali extravaganza in Zaïre last fall. Next Monday he will add a fifth when Ali fights European Champion Joe Bugner in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the climax of a closed-circuit tripleheader that will also include light-heavyweight and middleweight title fights in New York City. In the fall King hopes to cap his promotions with a $12 million Ali-Joe Frazier rematch, probably in the Philippines. That would bring the total take of King...
...designed to keep prices within a set range-have rarely succeeded. Even cartels have not worked for anyone but the oil producers. Copper prices, for example, have fallen 86? per pound in the past year to 54?, despite substantial production cutbacks by four large producers-Chile, Peru, Zambia and Zaïre. To benefit from a sudden jump in coffee prices, Brazil and other growers ignored an international coffee pact more than a year ago; now that prices are down they want a new agreement...
Mobutu explains: "The walls of such schools are decorated with photographs of Pope Paul and crosses, while they do not have photographs of the President. Zaïre children must first know of the man who sacrifices night and day for their happiness...
...While Zaïre's 6.5 million Protestants are affected, the main target of Mobutu's campaign is the large and pervasive Roman Catholic Church, 9.6 million strong. Catholicism has temporal as well as spiritual power (besides the schools, priests and nuns run many hospitals and social services) and it is the only force in the nation tied to a non-Zaïrean authority, the Papacy. Catholic independence clashes with Mobutu's effort to unify the nation by cultivating a semi-religious devotion to himself and his government. Some observers trace his fear of Catholic social...