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...province alone, collections increased 1,300%. Almost 5,000 opium parlors have been shut down. Thanks to record oil revenues of nearly $400 million this year and massive U.S. aid ($157 million in 1962), the national budget is balanced and the treasury even boasts a small surplus. Fortnight ago, the government signed a trade agreement with the Common Market, lowering European tariffs on Iranian carpets, caviar and various other products...
...turn the rest into chuño. Chuño-making begins when the temperature at night falls below freezing. Potatoes are left out to freeze, then thaw when the sun rises. Barefoot Indians tread out the moisture, leave the potatoes to freeze again, tread some more. After a fortnight they have chuño-a dehydrated potato that, with luck, will last all winter...
...rate that troubles keep piling up for Algerian President Ahmed ben Bella, he may never satisfy that longing to address the current session of the United Nations General Assembly. Fortnight ago, Ben Bella's bags were all packed when the Berber revolt in the Kabylia forced him to change plans. Then, after proclaiming with some exaggeration that the rebellion was crushed, Ben Bella confidently put the U.N. trip back on his schedule. Last week it was off again as the strongman faced a new crisis: a nasty border war with neighboring Morocco. Far from avoiding the clash, Ben Bella...
...bigger share of the growing market. This week Coca-Cola begins a $53 million advertising campaign in which its classic "Pause That Refreshes" will give way to what Coke calls a "one-sight, one-sound, one-sell" approach based on the slogan that "Things Go Better with Coke." Fortnight ago at Pepsi-whose slogan is "For Those Who Think Young"-New President Donald Mclntosh Kendall, after only a month on the job, wielded a broom that swept out six vice presidents and will brush in a revamped, decentralized distribution system aimed at making Pepsi a more powerful challenger to Coke...
...President Sukarno, who has sworn to crush Malaysia at all costs. On the Sarawak frontier, an Indonesian mortar company lobbed shells across the border. Deepening Indonesia's quarrel with Britain, which is pledged to defend Malaysia, government troops in Djakarta barred British diplomats from entering their embassy, gutted fortnight ago by an unchecked mob. The guards even tried to break into the embassy's fireproof code room until they were stopped by tough, stocky Ambassador Andrew Gilchrist, who forced his way into the embassy and stood guard over the strong room himself...