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...progress, Malaysia still has serious problems. Its rubber-heavy export structure is vulnerable to price fluctuations, and last week, with rubber down to 160 a pound, Malaysia was forced to seek more orders from the Soviet markets, which already constitute its biggest buyers. And the country's large and enterprising Chinese minority still threatens to cause trouble over the establishment of Malay as the official language. In East Malaysia - the Kansas-sized states of Sarawak and Sabah on Borneo's northern coast - Communist terrorists based in Indonesia harass rubber plantations and lines of communications, diverting money and manpower...
...their resin, boil it into sticky raw opium, and roll it into loaves of one to five pounds. The fight grows out of a jurisdictional dispute between tribute-collecting soldiers and smugglers who deliver the stuff into the hands of the two Chinese syndicates that control the opium export from Laos...
Ferocious Reader. Sandra Dale Dennis was stamped for export almost from her birth on April 27, 1937, in Hastings, Neb. (pop. 15,412), where her father, Jack Dennis, was a bakery driver-salesman who also happened to have a tested IQ of 160. After the war, Jack joined the post office as a railway mail clerk based in Lincoln (pop. 98,884), where Sandy was mainly raised. Her mother toiled as a secretary, lest their daughter ever be unindulged. Sandy, after all, was a quick, creative child who read ferociously long before she got to school. Later on, she regularly...
...five years ago before the 61 nations negotiated their first international coffee agreement. Until that time, the grower nations, lured by a postwar demand, planted and pushed onto world markets so much coffee that supply and demand reversed and prices dropped badly. The agreement corrected that by establishing stringent export quotas for each coffee-producing member...
...Senate cut such trade roughly in half. It voted to limit arms trade by the U.S. Export-Import Bank with underdeveloped countries to 7½% of the bank's lending capacity, thus slashing by 50% next year's planned $256 million in such loans. After that, Minority Leader Everett Dirksen lost a battle to bar Ex-Im Bank from financing machine tools for an Italian Fiat plant in Russia, but Virginia's Harry Byrd succeeded in getting through an amendment forbidding Ex-Im to ex tend credit to governments that send supplies to any nation "with which...