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...long will it continue to work? Never before has South Africa, the last firm bastion of white rule on a predominantly black continent, been so threatened. Nearby Angola and Mozambique, once Portuguese colonial buffer states, have become independent, leftist, black-ruled nations committed to helping the struggle against white rule in South Africa. One way or another, Ian Smith's Rhodesia, where blacks outnumber whites 22 to 1, is destined for majority rule. So is Namibia (South West Africa), the huge, mineral-rich territory that South Africa has governed (originally under a 1920 League of Nations mandate), although an independence...
...further ill omen: troops on both sides may be getting trigger-happy. U.S. observers monitoring the disengagement in the Sinai buffer zone have reported to Washington that Israeli and Egyptian units have fired at each other during the course of maneuvers over the past two months...
Stevens hopes to head off the parklands proposal with a hastily drafted plan that would preserve a fraction of the acreage in question and place buffer zones under control of a commission that would be free to permit development. But the preservationists are expected to win the battle of Alaska. The public, by using U.S. national parks in ever-increasing numbers, has demonstrated that it needs more wilderness. So has the Carter Administration, which despite its emphasis on energy, pledged last week to place high priority on preserving Alaska's wilderness...
...Commerce plans to monitor domestic roasting and production costs monthly rather than quarterly. To forestall possible collusion on the part of producing countries to jack up prices, U.S. embassy Agriculture attaches will keep tab on coffee inventories throughout the world. The U.S. Government is considering the creation of a buffer stock of 20 million 132-lb. bags, starting its buying as soon as prices fall. Says House Agriculture Subcommittee Chairman Fred Richmond, a New York Democrat: "We are paying $7.5 billion for green coffee beans [this year], when we paid $1.5 billion for the same amount last year. That means...
...Peru to Bolivia as a corridor to the sea. But Peru objected and invoked its right, obtained under a 1929 treaty, to veto any further change in status of territory that had once belonged to it. One reason for its objection is that Peru opposes the creation of a buffer between it and Chile...