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...they rate high on his list. Last week, for example, the Communists held sway over at least half of the country. The economy is almost as worrying. The inflation rate is currently at least 20%. An expected 50% reduction in rice and rubber exports has helped to drain foreign reserves. The price of rice is rapidly rising, and the next harvest is expected to be 35% lower. The flight of Vietnamese refugees has cost Cambodia its professional fishermen, cutting down the amount of fish available. "Real shortages will begin to develop in the next few months," said a Western diplomat...
...m.p.h. crash without front-or rear-end damage. So far there have been no takers. Criticizing Detroit's 1971 models, Allstate Chairman Judson Branch complains: "Look at the bumpers! Still tucked against the sheet metal: a perfect battering ram and shock transmitter. Another model year down the drain as far as sturdier cars...
...than 10% as much as the reserves of the Arab countries and Iran, and there is little hope that Indonesia's offshore fields will prove rich enough even to fill Japan's needs. Simply paying for large amounts of imports will precipitate a huge balance of payments drain unless American companies profit proportionately from the growing world demand for oil. For the foreseeable future, the oil-thirsty world will depend heavily on the bountiful reserves of the Middle East, for which the consuming countries will have to pay an increasingly steep price...
...Russia's growing role in Egypt did not trouble Nasser, the growing drain of the conflict with Israel apparently did. In August, he accepted a U.S. initiative calling for a cease-fire at Suez and peace talks. Then the Jordanian civil war erupted, with Arab fighting Arab, and Nasser was again cast in the peacemaker's role. He summoned Arab heads of government to Cairo for a summit to settle the fighting...
...mosquito-control agencies permitted farmers to forgo installing drainage facilities to reduce the insect's breeding grounds. As a result, the Central Valley's heavily irrigated crop lands have become huge hatcheries for Aëdes nigromaculus. Now that insecticides are useless, farmers are being ordered to drain their fields-a costly process that may force many small operators out of business...