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Colburn has been unable to compete yet this year because of a persistent achilles tendon injury. But Coach Bill McCurdy is hopeful the fleet sophomore is finally ready...
...opportunity. From Morocco on the Atlantic to South Yemen on the Arabian Sea, they are supplying weapons, training troops, running aid programs and generally making themselves useful in areas that until recently were Western preserves. To match their new stake in the area, they have increased their Mediterranean fleet to some 50 ships, which thus equals in number, if not in firepower, the U.S. Sixth Fleet. Such ports as Algeria's Mers-el-Kebir, Egypt's Alexandria and Syria's Latakia are filled with souvenir-shopping Soviet sailors these days. So far, only the oil-rich kingdoms...
...biggest power vacuum would occur in the cleft federation of Malaysia and the nearby island republic of Singapore, where 35,000 British troops bolster morale in China's shadow and the British fleet enjoys strategic access to Far East sea lanes. Both countries, which had been counting heavily on British protection through 1975, are now busy organizing a NATO-style defense agreement with Australia and New Zealand...
...whose continued presence in West Germany seemed more dependent on German offers to offset costs than anything else. In fact, as Defense Minister Denis Healey watched his establishment mercilessly pared, he must have wondered somewhat whether his entire ministry was not one of the three suggested on Fleet Street to be ready for mothballs...
...effort to strengthen the economy, Castro has tried one fruitless scheme after another. He built a new, modern commercial-fishing fleet of 300 boats, then found that most Cubans simply do not care for fish. He expanded cattle herds, but the distribution system is so bad that most of the beef still is not reaching Cuban tables. Now he has launched several show projects, including a "Che Guevara Invader Brigade" to open up more than 150,000 acres for farming in central Cuba by stamping out the ubiquitous Marabu weed, and a campaign to clear a 100,000-acre "belt...