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...western Riviera, where builders are hard at work on Fos-sur-Mer, a new port that will provide entry to a vast inland shipping route. By 1980, when dredging work along the Rhone and Rhine rivers is completed, vessels will be able to reach the North Sea from the Mediterranean via Fos, thus avoiding the long trip around the Iberian Peninsula...
...bridge between Europe and Asia inevitably makes it a scene of struggle among the superpowers. The Soviet Union, which has never given up trying to bring breakaway Yugoslavia back into the orthodox Communist fold, has an additional goal -a seaport on Yugoslavia's Dalmatian Coast for its big Mediterranean fleet. In a brilliant flanking tactic, China is showing an increasingly protective interest in Rumania and Yugoslavia; the object is to prevent the Soviets from moving freely against either country without having to fear Chinese retaliation against Mongolia and the eastern Soviet borders. The U.S. is also involved...
...theories-that there was a gradual diffusion of culture from the advanced Near East to barbarian Europe. There were a few puzzling exceptions: Stone Age tombs in Brittany, for example, were found to date back to at least 3000 B.C. Yet the oldest comparable tombs in the eastern Mediterranean-built by the Minoans on Crete -were known indirectly from actual historical records to date from only 2500 B.C. But except for a few iconoclastic prehistorians like Britain's Colin Renfrew of Sheffield University, most archaeologists remained thoroughly convinced "diffusionists." If a few prehistoric European monuments or artifacts happened...
Those adjustments have already stirred what Renfrew calls a major revolution in archaeological thinking. Brittany's tombs, for example, are now acknowledged to have been built at least a millennium before the first stone tombs in the eastern Mediterranean and 1,500 years before the first pyramids. The revised carbon 14 dates have also shown that skilled coppersmiths may have been at work in the Balkans and possibly prehistoric Spain even before the Greeks managed to master the metallurgical arts. "The central moral is inescapable," Renfrew recently wrote in Scientific American. "We have completely undervalued the originality and creativity...
Died. John Mecklin, 53, journalist; of cancer; in Fairfield, Conn. A cum laude graduate of the Ernie Pyle school, Mecklin began covering the world's wars in 1942 as a correspondent for the United Press in the Mediterranean theater. Then, broadening his scope, he cabled his battlefield and political reports to TIME from Indochina and the Middle East. Mecklin's service as U.S. Public Affairs Officer chief in Saigon from 1962 to 1964 provided the background for his book, Mission in Torment, a widely praised account of the Viet Nam conflict's early years. Later, he became...