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...Dunes comes from two steel companies, Bethlehem and Midwest Steel, who own the remaining land and wish to erect two steel mills on it. The steel companies, backed by leading Indiana politicians, support a proposal to build a harbor in the middle of the Dunes at Burns Ditch. They were jubilant at a recent report by the Corps of Army Engineers upholding the feasibility of the project...
...Tuong to be greeted by a banner bearing the somewhat ironical message: "We will root out all the Viet Cong who destroy our villages." A concrete administration building and clinic is already standing at Ben Tuong, but the peasants must erect their own thatch-roofed houses, dig a protective ditch around the site, and crown it with a dirt wall and barbed wire. The 70 families that "volunteered" were given land already cleared by bulldozers; those who had been reluctant to leave were moved into barrack-like structures at the edge of the forest...
...Starbird soon found that long disuse and the corrosion of the salt-laden ocean air had all but ruined what was left of the British facilities on the island. The harbor was silted with sand. The water supply system was nothing more than a deep ditch cut into the coral to catch rain water. The airstrip was pocked with holes that would snap off a landing gear. The buildings were ready to fall down...
...domain. Said he: "The federation is mine." When the news finally arrived, Sir Roy exploded. "This is not good enough." he roared, ordering; a London-bound BOAC Comet in mid-flight to stop in Salisbury and pick him up. Then he headed for the British capital in a last-ditch effort to get the plan changed...
...real test of Louis Joxe's nerves came last fortnight when the Algerian government agreed to a last-ditch attempt to reach a settlement. Joxe was convinced that the Algerians would be able to resist pressure from their own anti-French extremists only if the negotiations were hermetically sealed off from newsmen. As a meeting place Joxe chose Les Rousses, a crowded but unfashionable French ski resort near the Swiss border. There the French team took over the government-owned Chalet du Yeti (the Cottage of the Abominable Snowman). The Algerians, quartered across the border at a lakeside resort...