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...yams, bananas, rice and other vegetables that it needs to prevent hunger, is at work trying to make up for a scarcity of salt by distilling it from sea water. Almost every night, privately owned Super Constellations fly badly needed medicines, along with arms and ammunition, from Lisbon into Port Harcourt. Biafra is unable to sell any of its oil and its refineries are virtually shut down. But breweries and cigarette plants are producing at normal levels, and factories that are not short of material are working part time...
...scandal involves a high-society prostitution ring that catered to the top echelon of Lisbon's social, business and political set. Operating almost under Salazar's nose, the girls worked out of a seemingly innocent dress shop on Lisbon's chic Avenida Roma. Many of them were teen-agers and even younger, and, according to Portuguese officials, they performed for their clients most of the tricks and perversions known to pornographic literature...
...government, headed by Oxford-educated Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, 34, has moved its headquarters south to the dreary provincial town of Aba. Ojukwu's agents in Lisbon have bought millions of dollars worth of arms and ammunition, which reach the rebels at night via the Portuguese island of São Tomé in the Gulf of Guinea. Biafran students recently organized noisy pro-secessionist demonstrations at the United Nations in New York and in downtown London. Biafra's lone television station continued to end its program day each evening with a rousing chorus of We Shall Overcome...
...course there are plenty of post-Lindbergh improvements along the way. Whether a pilot takes the northern route or one of the less volatile southern routes (New York-Gander-Azores-Lisbon or New York-Bermuda-Azores-Lisbon), he can get essentially the same map and weather-chart information that airline pilots have. Beyond that, there are radar checks on his progress all along the route, chiefly from nine ocean vessels on station that send out radio beacons. Canadian officials refused for years to allow single-engine planes to begin transoceanic flights from their airfields because the ensuing air-sea rescue...
...program. This would come to less than one-quarter of 1% of Litton's sales, which amounted to $1.2 billion last year. But the Greek venture could be a pilot for applying Litton's systems engineering to similar projects abroad. Already in the works: a deal with Lisbon for joint development of Alentejo, a region in central and southern Portugal. Says Litton Chairman Tex Thornton: "We're using Greece and Portugal as sort of guinea pigs...