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...TIME'S story on Cambodia, "Pinching the Arteries" [Jan. 25], has Admiral Thomas H. Moorer describing the situation as deteriorating, though not really critical; later in the story, you say that the Communists "are trying to carve out staging areas in the northeast." Yet your accompanying map shows the Communists in almost total control of the country, with only a tiny sliver around Phnom-Penh in government hands and another relatively small area rated as "disputed." Which is correct...
...Black Africa's 34 countries (see map) marched to independence in 1960, and 13 have followed since. As the continent was swept by a "wind of change," in Harold Macmillan's famous phrase, one former colony after another set out on its own. buoyed by unreasonably high hopes. Few captured the heady mood more eloquently than Julius Nyerere, who marked Tanganyika's independence in 1961 by sending an expedition to plant a flag and a torch atop Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak. "It will shine beyond our borders," said Nyerere, "giving hope where there...
...graduate students flew with Hoffmann to Washington to attend the meeting which was held strictly off the record at Kissinger's request. The session was held in the White House Situation Room, where President Nixon is briefed during crises. As Kissinger talked with the group, students could see a map of Cambodia on the wall...
...Royaume de Cambodge (Kingdom of Cambodia)" was the inscription on the map, but the words "Kingdom of" had been crossed off in pencil...
Since mid-1969, the U.S. has thinned its forces throughout Asia (see map). In South Korea, the departure of 20,000 G.I.s will force Seoul's troops to patrol the entire 151-mile length of their DMZ for the first time since 1950. In Japan, there will be 12,000 fewer U.S. servicemen. The U.S. Navy plans to vacate its huge Yokosuka base in favor of quarters in Sasebo, and some 50 F-4 Phantom jets will be moved to South Korea...