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Hannibal and nearly defeated Russia in its "winter war" with Finland, is much misunderstood. Thought of as sterile, it .eems with microorganisms, from single-celled creatures to the ice worms immortalized in Robert Service's poem The Bal lad of Blasphemous Bill...
...major European intelligence service claims 24% of the Soviet diplomats accredited to embassies in Western Europe are KGB agents; there are 87 such agents accredited in West Germany, 53 in Italy and 98 in Finland. About 35% of the 136 diplomats accredited to the Soviet embassy in Washington are believed to be KGB agents, and others serve as Tass correspondents, trade representatives and employees of the Soviet airline Aeroflot...
Last week leading flu experts met in Geneva at the World Health Organization. Their main concern was to help develop a vaccine against the reborn strain of flu now ravaging the Soviet Union. Though cases have been reported in China, Finland and Czechoslovakia, A/USSR or Russian flu is still only a threat to the rest of the world. The flu now sweeping 41 states is mostly another new variant called A/Texas...
Since 1974 more than 50 Yankee bond issues have been sold in the U.S., almost all by governments or organizations whose credit is government-guaranteed. Borrowers include the national governments of Australia, Finland and Norway; the city governments of Oslo and Stockholm; the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Investment Bank; the Japan Development Bank; the state-owned French railroad, telecommunications and electricity networks. Privately owned foreign companies still sell few bonds in the U.S.; they prefer to raise their money in Europe where, for all the disadvantages, there are no tough rules ordering disclosure of secret corporate...
...South Africa, they have as much right to claim it as their true home as Canadians have to claim Ontario. That fact was recognized by black African leaders at the Lusaka conference of 1969, which acknowledged that the 4.3 million South African whites (equivalent to the population of Finland) were not colonialists...