ISSUE DATE: June 5, 1978; Vol. 111, No. 24

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COVER: AFRICA: A Political Jungle. Cover: Illustration by Edward Sorel.

COVER: Jimmy Carter blasts Soviet and Cuban interference in Africa as the U.S. debates the Communist threat. Meanwhile, new scenes of death and horror surface as Shaba rebels flee from shattered Koiwezi.

See WORLD.

TAX REVOLT: With soaring assessments spurring a rebefflon over property taxes in California, a showdown vote looms next week on PROPOSITION 13. If the tax-cutting proposition passes, will chaos ensue? See NATION.

NATION: The fiscal restraint issue dominates the primaries. The Jerry & Jimmy show. OSHA inspectors may need warrants.

WORLD: Iranian dissidents vs. the Shah. The U.N. talks disarmament. Bumpy takeoff for Japan's Narita airport.

ART: I.M. PEI's masterpiece on the Mail, the East Building of the National Gallery, opens in Washington, D.C., with six exhibitions. Particularly notable: a dazzling display of treasures on loan from Dresden to the new museum.

EDUCATION: Sam Phillips' academy, better known as ANDOVER, turns 200, still teaching "the great end and real business of living.".

ECONOMY & BUSINESS: Foreign tourists rush to the U.S., bringing money. Carter's anti-inflation program begins to make progress.

SHOW BUSINESS: Broadway's stompin' new musical, Ain't Misbehavin turns the songs and spirit of Fats Wailer into a high-hattin' hit.

THEATER: Ontario's Shaw Festival offers two plays about the lust for power, Major Barbara and Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman.

RELIGION: At a national meeting in San Diego, United Presbyterians overwhelmingly reject ordination for homosexuals in the church.

SCIENCE: An Ice Age exhibit shows that Cro-Magnon men were artists, not brutes. Pioneer Venus 1 heads for its planetary namesake.

SEXES: Attempts to hire surrogate mothers run afoul of Michigan law. How telephone hot lines provide sex information.

ENVIRONMENT: Icebergs--in the form of"growlers" and "bergy bits"--threaten to disrupt tanker lanes and cut off the supply of Alaskan oil.

MEDICINE: Growing numbers of HOSPICES are helping people to die with as little discomfort and as much serenity as possible.

Letters. American Scene. People. Milestones. Cinema. Books.
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