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...East-West trade winds are stirring with uncommon force. Both a U.S. presidential commission and the prestigious Committee for Economic Development have urged the U.S. to expand its commerce with Eastern Europe, and President Johnson repeated his earlier promise to ease restrictions on sales to Russia and its satellites. Going farther, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at its annual meeting urged the U.S. to "open channels of communications with the people of Communist China." Last week the trade drive picked up speed in three European capitals. The U.S. opened its first trade show in Budapest amid the whir of computers...
Coal & Cashmere. East-West trade has been rising by 10% annually, in 1965 is expected to top $7 billion for the first time in history. This commerce takes some fascinating forms. Japan imports millions of dollars worth of coal from North Viet Nam-and is distressed because the trade recently has been impeded by the refusal of some frightened Japanese seamen to sail into Vietnamese waters. Britain buys cashmere from Red China, weaves it into sweaters and socks for sale to the U.S. and other Western countries. Italy is keeping its state-run shipyards busy by building six tankers...
...menace than Red China. In riots last year 4,000 from both groups were killed after a holy hair from the prophet Mohammed's head was stolen from a Kashmir mosque. The two nations' conflicting claims to Kashmir have created a diplomatic impasse that may outlast the East-West stalemate on Berlin...
...CANADA, CALIF. In this luxuriant valley eleven miles north of downtown Los Angeles, residents are making a last-ditch stand against a proposed eight-lane speedway that would cut their community in half. Running east-west alongside the town's main thoroughfare, it would link up other northern suburbs but do nothing for the town itself, seems to La Canadans little more than a ruse to collect $60 million in federal grants. The highway department claims that the projected-population figures for La Canada by 1980 necessitate the freeway. Planning Consultant Lyle Stewart retorts: "This area is built...
...days ago we went down to the East-West Institute to try a Macrobiotic meal and watch Mr. Michio Kushi, the director, transmute elements, Our disappointment at finding this exotic Oriental institution in an old gray frame house on Walden Street, a few blocks north of Porter Square, disappeared when we opened the door; a healthy smell of brown rice broke over...