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Better Body Count. It is ironic that as Asia enters its so-called "post-Western phase," the U.S is gaining for the first time a measurable economic (as opposed to political or strategic) stake in the region: offshore oil. In this decade, U.S. and other companies expect to spend something like $35 billion in Asia searching for oil and building the facilities to process it. Already, major deposits have been located off Indonesia, and other areas, including coastal South Viet Nam, are considered promising. Asia's oil potential is considerable and may eventually help ease the American energy shortage...
...study, Asia must create no fewer than one billion new jobs over the next 30 years just to keep pace with the population growth. If the U.S. should decide to take on a new Asian "commitment" after Viet Nam, helping create those jobs could be one variety of body count worth achieving...
Allende's Popular Unity coalition claimed 50.8%. Actually, if void, blank and independent ballots had been included in the total count, the coalition's share of the vote would have amounted to 49.7%. Still, the figure was an impressive increase over the 36.3% Allende received in the 1970 presidential elections. The Chilean Communist Party, which is closely aligned with the Soviet Union, increased its vote only slightly-from 15.9% of the total last year to 17.3% this time. The big winner was Allende's Socialist Party, which stresses its independent Chilean character. The Socialists nearly doubled their...
Peculiar Types. The largest group of collectors is American. Munich Auctioneer Count Arnhard Klenau von Klenova, who conducted last week's sale, claims to know of at least 200 American collectors. In his Hollywood home, Bob Hope has books with Hitler's name plate, several sheets of Hitler's personal stationery and a porcelain dinner plate inscribed "Kanzlei des Führers" (Führer's Chancellery), which Hope acquired while entertaining troops in Germany in 1945. The West Point archives, says the count, are also searching for relics. "Though I personally know only a very...
...count was six ahead of last year's first-day total. The blood drive has been an annual Harvard event since World...