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Building black economic power in the ghetto requires financial backing and know-how. Black business in the past evolved behind the walls of segregation to meet a demand left unfulfilled by business firms operating in the general market (such as undertaking and insurance). Serving a limited market, these businesses provided few positions which could train black youths for business careers...
...cooperation in advancing Britain's nuclear technology. The British would like to fit multiple-target nuclear warheads to their Polaris missiles, as the U.S. has already done with some of its intercontinental missiles. Since the U.S. is increasingly sensitive to French charges of favoring Britain with nuclear know-how that it denies to others, the British regard the warhead question as a key indicator of how freely Nixon will continue military cooperation...
Taiwan's main effort is built on sharing its own hard-won know-how in intensive rice and vegetable cultivation. In the Ivory Coast, for example, Chinese experts have managed to increase rice output tenfold per annum in their pilot plots. But technical help is also extended in fisheries, engineering, medicine and peanut-oil production...
...China Cloud, two Associated Press editors have put together an impressive research project dealing with the origins of China's nuclear know-how. It was the U.S. that gave China its start. Since the 1930s, a number of young Chinese science students had been arriving on U.S.-sponsored scholarships; many contributed to America's nuclear and missile technology. During the feverish Red hunts of the early 1950s, many of the scientists fled the U.S., while others were deported. Eighty returned to China-taking with them vast amounts of information-and were pressed into Mao Tse-tung...
Journeying to the Soviet capital, Czechoslovak Premier Oldřich Cernick put his signature on a new seven-year economic agreement that abolishes any hope that Czechoslovakia might be able to seek funds and know-how in the West to revitalize its disastrously outmoded industry. The agreement was another barter deal, similar to earlier ones that ruinously shortchanged the Czechoslovaks; they must deliver trucks, heavy pipe and other manufactured goods to the Russians in return for raw materials. In addition, both countries will cooperate in the construction of a long pipeline to carry natural gas from the Soviet fields...