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...even as foreign as it used to be: though more than 25% of the legion are still German, an estimated 20% are French, while Italians, Spaniards, Yugoslavs and others form a polyglot minority. After nine long years of dull garrison duty in Corsica, New Caledonia and France, all that matters to the 1,000 legionnaires in Chad is that they are at war once again. TIME Correspondent James Wilde spent five days in the field with them. His report...
...sources will be opened up by the mid-1970s to reduce the leverage of the Ontario unionists, who have a habit of striking at the expiration of each three-year contract. Inco has acquired concessions in Guatemala and Indonesia. The French firm of Le Nickel is mining in New Caledonia. Most important, recent discoveries show that Western Australia may some day rival Ontario as a "nickel province." For the moment, however, anyone who has a source of nickel can make a mint...
...Regarding Air Commando Squadrons in Thailand [July 26], I'm reminded of the story during World War II when Lieut. Ryan of the U.S. Navy Seabees stepped out of the jungle of New Caledonia and onto the beach to greet an assemblage of Marines assaulting the beach with "The Seabees are always glad to welcome the Marines ashore." As in that case, in 1968 the Seabees of the more than 20 Seabee teams that have operated in the remotest parts of Thailand since 1963 are happy to welcome the Air Commandos aboard. We've treated nearly...
...nickel, gets two-thirds of its output from Canadian mines, principally, up to now, in the Sudburydistrict of Ontario. To supplement that, the company has been busily prospecting for nickel all around the world. It recently signed a partnership agreement with the French government to mine in New Caledonia, has been carrying on protracted negotiations for other finds in Guatemala, and is beating the brush for nickel in Africa, Australia and Indonesia...