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...addition to the U.S., Britain and Russia, 100 other nations out of the 127 eligible to sign the pact have done so. Outstanding holdouts: France, Red China, North Korea, North Viet Nam, Albania, Cuba...
...simultaneous feuds with the U.S., the Soviet Union and India, the three most populous nations in the world after his own. In fact, he has plunged China into an isolation so complete that he can count as certain allies only tiny North Korea in Asia and even tinier Albania in Europe...
...Slow Ones. China's antitreaty stand was backed by avowedly pro-Peking Albania, North Korea and North Viet Nam. So far, these are the only countries that have formally announced that they will not sign. But chary of angering the Chinese, other Asian nations have been slow to indicate their approval of the pact. They include Nepal, which lies in an exposed position in China's border conflict with India; Ceylon and Cambodia, both left-wing "neutrals"; and Indonesia, which is hopeful of Chinese support in any future action against the soon-to-be-born Malaysian federation...
...RUMANIA has the highest industrial growth rate in Europe (16% annually) and, except for Albania, pays its workers the least (per capita income: $135 a year). Bucharest eagerly cultivates Western traders to supply the latest machinery for its new steel and petrochemical plants; at home political discipline is tighter than ever. When Rumanians last year flocked to see Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment, the regime tried to offset its popularity by distributing leaflets explaining that the movie was really about decadence in New York City...
...Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany,Hungary, Outer Mongolia, Poland, Rumania, U.S.S.R. Albania is now virtually excluded; Red China is only an observer...