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Pakistan calls the 8,000-sq.-mi. area an inland sea (and indeed during the monsoon season most of it is blanketed with four feet of water from the Arabian Sea), hence feels the boundary should be drawn halfway through the Rann. Shastri last week invoked etymology to prove that the Rann is not a sea but a swamp, deriving as it does from the Sanskrit irinam, meaning "salty marsh." Therefore, the Indian Prime Minister argued, the boundary must remain as drawn by the British way back...
This week Soviet shipping and trade enter what the Russians hope will be a new era. In the Iranian port of Naushahr, a 4,000-ton Soviet vessel will begin loading for a 4,300-mile voyage to Hamburg, Germany, over a new inland waterway that stretches from the Caspian Sea to the Baltic, ranks as one of the world's longest waterways. The route will cut the average shipping time from Iran to Germany from 50 to 25 days. It will slice 2,700 miles from the previous circuitous route, which took ships through the Atlantic, the Mediterranean...
Exuberant citizens of Moscow-which is 400 miles inland but tied into the waterway by a newly widened spur -are already touting their city as a major seaport. They have dubbed it "the Port of the Five Seas," because it is now tied up with the Baltic, the Black, White, Azov and Caspian...
...GOLD OF THE RIVER SEA, by Charlton Ogburn. Author Ogburn (The Marauders) fills a rousing, rambling novel with high adventure and lusty characters, but is himself possessed-and possesses his readers-by the grandeur and savagery of the Amazon, "The Inland...
Digging In. Meanwhile the South Vietnamese were doing some new and welcome convoying of their own last week. Route 19, connecting the port of Quinhon with inland Pleiku, had been closed for a month because of the danger of ambush along its winding 100-mile course through the Viet Conginfested countryside. But with troops, armored cars and overflying helicopters as escorts, a 168-vehicle convoy punched through to Pleiku with 300 tons of much-needed supplies. Two days later, a 77-truck convoy repeated the trip...