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...French and British fortnight ago agreed to jointly construct a new air-to-ground missile, already have in the works joint ventures for the Concorde supersonic airliner, a jet trainer, an air traffic control system and a historic tunnel link underneath the English Channel. There are hints, too, that De Gaulle, who has long scorned summitry with the Russians as pointless and dangerous, is eying Moscow in a new light...
...Montreal separatist organization operates more or less openly, with an estimated membership of 7,000. Small, shadowy bands of fanatics have bombed army installations, destroyed mailboxes and raided armories, stealing rifles, sub machine guns, antitank bazookas and any other weapons they could cart away. Fortnight ago, five terrorists looted a firearms store in Montreal and killed an employee before police swooped down to capture them...
French companies have set up a cement factory, two chemical plants and three sugar refineries. Sweden recently finished two dry docks and several meat packing houses, is now building a pulp-processing plant in eastern Siberia. The Netherlands has constructed three fer tilizer plants, and Japan fortnight ago approved a contract for one worth $10 million. Even industries in West Ger any, which has a strict ban on all but cash deals with Russia, have managed to get a few Russian contracts...
Nothing illustrated the worth of overhead weather surveillance better than Tiros' advance warning fortnight ago that dangerous winds were gathering force in the Atlantic, 1,100 miles southeast of Puerto Rico...
...factories. The lone highway between the two cities is hopelessly jammed. Planes fly often, but fares are high. And the Old Tokaido Line, opened in 1891, is so clogged with a quarter of the nation's passenger and freight traffic that passengers often reserve seats a fortnight ahead, marshaling yards overflow with goods, and maintenance crews repair tracks, with stopwatch timing, between trains only minutes apart...