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Western diplomats felt that it was highly unlikely that the Soviets would allow the East Germans to aggravate the Berlin situation into an American-Soviet dispute while Nixon was en route there. After all, the Soviets have so far been careful not to provoke the new President. They hope that he will work with them to forgo the building of an anti-ballistic missile system and to keep West Germany from getting nuclear weapons by pressuring Bonn into signing the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Those Soviet goals would be imperiled by a new showdown in Berlin. As West German Foreign Minister...
Still, it was significant that the Soviets had allowed the East Germans to go as far as they did. Perhaps the most plausible explanation was that the Soviet leaders felt compelled to allow their most loyal and important ally to kick up a minor fuss, while all the time stage-managing the crisis so that its timing and proportions would not seriously impair U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations...
...Congress Party's most stunning setback came in India's most strategic state, West Bengal, which borders East Pakistan. It also contains India's largest concentration of industry and its most miserable city, Calcutta. In West Bengal, the twelve-party United Front, which is dominated by Peking-lining Communists, won 214 seats in the 280-seat legislature, while the Congress Party's holding dropped from 127 seats to only 55. There was little doubt that the United Front would now put together a government that may well be headed by a Maoist chief minister...
From the remote hill country, the bal lots came in by relays of elephants to be counted in regional centers. In the guerrilla-plagued provinces of the north east, troops stood on full alert, and in Bangkok, the capital, some 3,000 uni versity students, describing themselves as "neutral observers," watched the polls to make sure all was fair and square...
What Blue Cross will reimburse varies from state to state, and within states, according to what plan the subscribing group has chosen. Some Blue Cross plans in the West cover in-hospital doctors' bills, a function generally reserved in the East for Blue Shield. Whatever its limitations, Blue Cross was such a success that commercial insurance companies soon tried to emulate...