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CHINA'S foreign relations are daily developing," said Defense Minister Lin Piao at this year's National Day celebrations. "We have friends all over the world." That was not an idle boast. Picking up the pieces of its shattered foreign relations in the wake of Mao Tse-tung's convulsive Cultural Revolution, Peking has mounted a skillful diplomatic offensive. Last week, after nearly two years of secret negotiations, Italy and China recognized each other and agreed to establish diplomatic relations. Only three weeks earlier, Peking had reached a similar agreement with Canada...
...Yourself. South Milwaukee's people are proud of their self-sufficiency. Residents boast that their town is the only one in Milwaukee County that has not joined the metropolitan sanitary district. When some boating enthusiasts formed the South Milwaukee Yacht Club, the members pitched in themselves to build a one-story, cinder-block clubhouse and a breakwater that juts into Lake Michigan. The members pay dues of only $36.50 a year and mostly operate small powerboats, but a few have 40-ft. yachts. "We're self-contained," explains Charles Webb, 29, a trailer mechanic...
...discover and settle the United States, and none of them fought to establish this nation. Their ties to the United States are recent and involuntary, and the slogans they chant reflect a closer kinship with the poorer nations that have broken away than with the richer ones that boast success and power. And so last Friday they marched, militantly but without guns; not disguised at night to throw the tea overboard but openly at noon to announce their intent to the ambassadors of the world...
...they are by no means short on combat experience. Most American pilots, whose combat tour in Viet Nam usually lasts only one year, can expect to fly 200 to 300 sorties, or about 400 to 600 combat hours. Many Vietnamese pilots have been flying combat missions for years and boast up to 4,000 flying hours, 90% of them in combat. As a result, says General Lucius D. Clay Jr., commander of the Seventh Air Force and son of the famous World War II general, "they can put a bomb in the ashtray on your desk...
...Soviet medicine is its system for emergency care. Each city has a central station (reached by dialing 03) that dispatches ambulances from local substations. Leningrad, which handles as many as 1,800 calls on a winter day, has 120 ambulances at 16 stations spotted about the city. Officials boast that an ambulance can be on the scene from seven to nine minutes after a call is received. Ambulances carry equipment for emergency surgery, care of cardiac patients and "reanimation" in cases of near death. They also carry a medical doctor and a feldsher, or medical assistant, a combination that makes...