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...Britain's three services. Cruelest cut of all went to the Royal Navy, which will lose all of its four carriers, now the nucleus of Britain's sea power. The army will reduce its garrisons in Malta and Cyprus, will withdraw entirely from British Guiana and Aden. The Royal Air Force's V-bombers, which now constitute Britain's nuclear strike force, will gradually be grounded...
...paid his own visit to the Shah, where the two settled an old dispute over offshore oil rights in the Persian Gulf. The oil-rich gulf, in fact, is doubtless one key element in all the royal rambling, for with Britain considering withdrawal from its bases at Bahrein and Aden, an informal understanding today could become a formal pact tomorrow if leftists try to push the Nasserite cause in the region...
...most remarkable shots, taken by Lovell as Gemini 7 soared over the Wadi Hadhramaut region in Aden, shows with exceptional clarity a delicate, frostlike pattern of valleys and ridges that should delight both cartographers and geologists. One shot shows Borman concentrating on the use of an inflight vision tester; another shows Lovell peering out of his capsule, admiring the incomparable view from orbit. A closeup picture of Borman illustrates the effects of zero G in space: hovering near his head is a camera-film magazine floating weightlessly during orbit...
Both bases put a tremendous strain on Britain's badly stretched economy: Aden costs $168 million a year to maintain, Singapore and Malaysia $630 million. Whitehall planners, currently preparing next February's defense review under the most stringent of cost-accounting standards, are confronted with a knotty dilemma. Britain must pare its projected 1970 defense costs from $6.7 billion to $5.6 billion; at the same time, the "ghastly blank" in the thin red line of defenses that will exist between Europe and Hong Kong must be filled if Britain is to meet her responsibilities in foreign policy...
...Rhodesia. "The sensible thing, of course, would be to send some people in there now. We sent them into Aden, why not Rhodesia? We should reoccupy the place and compel them to have a sensible African policy. This doesn't mean turning the country over to the Africans, but working with them over a period of time, which would also help erase some of the white settler attitudes Rhodesians have. I say we ought to be tough now to prevent a beastly dragging incident later." She then smiled and said she doubted whether many of her fellow Britons would...