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...first time since the end of the war. In the city's Radziwill Palace, with Polish Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka beaming in the background, Brandt and Polish Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz, a former Auschwitz inmate, signed leather-bound copies of an agreement that cedes to Poland 40,000 sq. mi. of former German territory east of the Oder-Neisse rivers. In return, some 100,000 ethnic Germans who have lived in the Oder-Neisse region since the end of World War II will be allowed to emigrate to West Germany...
...missing stood at 200,000 by week's end, and there were predictions that it would eventually triple or even quintuple. The cyclone was thus guaranteed its place as the 20th century's worst natural disaster. In all, the storm devastated a densely populated, 3,000-sq. mi. area, destroying 90% of the buildings and 90% of the rice crop. In some areas, TIME's Ghulam Malik reported last week, "it was like the beginning of life after Doomsday. People were wandering naked, wailing the names of kin who never responded. At Hatia, survivors wore rags that...
...That would place the East Pakistan storm second to mankind's worst recorded natural disaster-China's Yellow River flood of 1887, in which anywhere from 1,000,000 to 7,000,000 perished; so widespread was the destruction, covering 50,000 sq. mi., that no really accurate estimate has ever been made...
...talks with West Germany, East German Communist Leader Walter Ulbricht feels increasingly isolated. Last week he agreed to reopen the dialogue with Bonn, which was broken off last May after the fruitless second summit meeting. In the Treaty of Warsaw, Bonn renounces its claim to the 40,000 sq. mi. of former German territory east of the Oder and Neisse rivers that was ceded to Poland after World War II as compensation for 71,000 sq. mi. of Polish territory that had been annexed by Russia. In turn, the Poles have agreed to allow the 100,000 or so ethnic...
...three countries ever did unite an enormous ifthe resulting North African nation would become a power to be reckoned with. It would be the world's 15th largest nation in population (50.5 million) and seventh in size (2,033,000 sq. mi.). Economically, it would have a solid base in Libya's $1 billion-a-year oil industry, Sudan's considerable agricultural potential and Egypt's manpower reserves. Militarily, the union could provide additional manpower and protected defensive positions in any new war with Israel...