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February 6, 1984

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a reporter at large

THE ITURI FOREST

Alex Shoumatoff

REPORTER AT LARFE about an eleven-day walk through the Ituri Forest in Zaire, a big country on the western side of sub-Saharan Africa. It was formerly the …