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- 28 April 1978 – 7 June 1978 (Creation)
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Contents list on the inside front cover reads:
(1) Saudi lorry driver
(2) Byron Hove’s return
(3) Sir Neil Cameron
(4) Prince George of Denmark background
(5) Falkland Islands
(6) China v USSR
(7) Sithole, KK in London
(8) Zaire invasion
(9) USSR Baptists
(10) Zaire – Paris meeting
(11) Jimmy Carter’s Annapolis speech [American President, 1971-75]
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The 1978 Zaire invasion, known as Shaba II, was an incursion by 6,500 Katangese rebels into the copper-rich Shaba province. The conflict featured the capture of Kolwezi, a mass hostage crisis, and a joint Western military intervention.
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President Jimmy Carter delivered a major foreign policy address on Soviet-American relations at the United States Naval Academy graduation in Annapolis, Maryland, on 7 June 1978.
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Member states approved the European Convention for the protection of animals kept for farming purposes in June 1978.