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...hostile Malaysia aligned with a powerful Indonesia would halt the flow of East-West shipping through one of the world's busiest waterways-the vital Strait of Malacca (see map). And since Indonesia lies athwart other passages north of the 10th Parallel, a sea voyage from Hong Kong to Rangoon would require a detour of some 7,000 miles. Should Viet Nam also fall, west bound jetliners that now fly to India via Thailand would have to be rerouted via Australia-double the distance...
...eager to deal with the Communists that the question of trade has taken on a new dimension: instead of merely selling goods, Western businessmen are sending whole factories and generous credits eastward. Western Europe is leading the trend, but last week the U.S. also shuffled itself into some important East-West deals...
...West German businessmen, who lifted their East-West business well above $1 billion last year, grumble that they could have done even better if their government had allowed them to offer long-term credits as other Western Europeans have begun to do. German tycoons have raised such a howl that the Cabinet promises to re-examine its tough line later this month. And Britain, which opened the gates to easy credit last year by giving the Czechs up to twelve years to pay for two fertilizer plants, hailed another breakthrough last week. It won its first order to build ships...
...N.N.A. began to tot up its victory, Okpara's headquarters issued a chilling warning. Calling the election "a farce," the U.P.G.A. announced that unless "a free and fair election" were immediately forthcoming, the east-west alliance would reluctantly consider a proposal "to break up the Nigerian Federation peacefully" and allow the East to secede...
...controversial legislation, he may not be around for too long. In Moscow, a new B. & K. diarchy is in power, but unless Brezhnev and Kosygin manage to work in tandem more effectively than Bulganin and Khrushchev did, an internal power struggle may grip Russia and becloud efforts for an East-West detente. Peking's atomic blast may make it more difficult than ever for the U.S. to keep nations along the periphery of Red China from falling under its influence. In Latin America, Johnson must take up the unfinished business of Fidel Castro, not to mention such trouble spots...