A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER.

The article offers information on the coverage of the boxing match between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali in Zaïre by "Time" magazine. Lee Griggs, the magazine's bureau chief for Nairobi, Kenya, describes the situation in Kinshasa, Zaïre including the improvement in the soldiers' treatment of journalists. Magazine correspondents have interviewed family members of Foreman and reported on the special financial arrangements regarding the match. Philip Taubman, the magazine's sport editor, has visited Foreman and Ali at their training camps in the U.S.