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...break occurred along a generally east-west line known as the Motagua Fault and measured 7.5 on the Richter seismological scale (the 1972 quake that leveled much of Managua, Nicaragua measured 6.3). The sudden movement may have answered a question that has been bothering geophysicists for years. Earth scientists have never been sure just where the Guatemalan section of the boundary between the North American and Caribbean plates lies. Now they have an idea...
...even produce a trustworthy ally. Moreover, even if the Soviets were to gain naval and air bases in Angola, giving them a long-coveted foothold on the West Coast of Africa, skeptics maintain that the strategic advantages would not be worth the damage done to Soviet-American relations and East-West détente...
...sides, the whole structure and direction of the still experimental Soviet-American accommodation known as détente are becoming part of the domestic political debate. Under fire from some quarters for being too conciliatory, President Ford and Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev are showing greater toughness in the East-West exchange. As one Western intelligence official describes it, "Brezhnev is moving toward Mikhail Suslov [a veteran hard-liner on the Politburo], and Ford is moving toward Ronald Reagan...
...summit was originally conceived as a follow-up to last summer's East-West European Security Conference in Helsinki and a kind of grand finale to Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's decade of leadership. The Russians wanted a document they could present to their 25th Soviet Party Congress, scheduled for February, that would stress the disruptiveness of China's role in the Communist world and laud that of Moscow. Now there seems little chance that the Communist summit can be held before the Soviet Party Congress...
...been the second richest nation in black Africa (after Nigeria) is in ruins. In 1974 Angola was the world's fourth largest coffee producer (earnings: $231 million) and fifth largest source of diamonds (nearly $100 million). Its iron ore mines brought in $38 million; and the vital east-west Benguela Railway, which carried most of Zambia's and Zaïre's copper ore to the sea, brought in $1 million a week in transit revenues. Because of the fighting and the flight of white settlers, the railroad is closed. So are the iron mines. The coffee...