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CUBA has trained some 2,500 Latin American guerrillas during the past decade. In addition, the Cubans have sent military instructors to Algeria and to the Congo-Brazzaville. Despite Fidel Castro's tough words two weeks ago about aligning himself with the "revolutionary peoples of the world," Cuba's training program has been somewhat curtailed in the post-Che Guevara period. While still capable of exploiting regional trouble spots, the Cubans have lately been preoccupied with economic problems at home and have been inhibited by the fact that leftist movements in many Latin American countries are splintered...
Japan's own coastal waters: drilling began last week off the southern end of Honshu Island. Japanese industries buy copper from Chile, Zambia, Brazil and the Congo, nickel and iron from Australia, coal from Canada and the U.S. Far more is required. By 1975, Japan expects to need imports for 58% of its lumber, 83% of its copper, 85% of its coal and 90% of its iron...
Burrows, 44, had covered conflicts across the world-in Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, Cyprus and the Congo. But the lanky, gentle-mannered Englishman had very personal feelings about Viet Nam. "Be it exotic meetings with Madame Nhu, or sleeping on a stretcher on a Vietnamese patrol, or sharing a sock of rice with the Special Forces, this strange war fascinates me," he said. He could be diverted, but not for long. As LIFE Managing Editor Ralph Graves put it: "He spent nine years covering this war under conditions of incredible danger. We kept thinking up other, safe stories...
...past decade, and its share of world exports has declined from 2.6% in 1963 to 2.3% in 1969. Much of its economic malaise can be traced directly to the dizzily fluctuating prices of its export commodities. Copper (94% of Zambia's export and 60% of the Congo's) dropped in value from $1,600 a ton last March to $1,140 in August. Sisal (once Tanzania's leading export) has dropped from $18.16 per 100 Ibs. in 1963 to $6.64 last August. Statistics about Africa are woefully inadequate; economists differ over whether Nigeria's per-capita...
...coming decades, Black Africa may have to rely heavily on itself for economic development. Private investment has always been inadequate, except in exploiting proven natural resources-Nigeria's oil, Zambia's copper, the Congo's minerals. Foreign aid will be harder to get and more expensive to accept than ever. In the face of what they regard as apathy from the West, some African governments have turned to the Communist powers for help. Tanzania and Zambia have begun construction of a 1,161-mile, $450 million railway that is being paid for with an interest-free loan...