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...extremely sensitive task of negotiating a new treaty with the U.S. about the status of the 54-year-old canal and the possibility of building a new one. The political rallying cry in Panama is for the U.S. to give up sovereignty and control of the 557-sq.-mi. Canal Zone. The Zone has been under U.S. administration since the Americans opened the canal in 1914, and nationalist sentiment runs high in Panama to alter that Yankee domination...
Safe from Quakes. An odd combination of economic forces lies behind the downtown rebirth. Transit-shy Angelenos rely almost entirely on autos to move around their 464-sq.-mi. city, whose boundaries could encompass the combined areas of St. Louis, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Boston, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Manhattan. While the auto made it easy for Los Angeles to sprawl, earthquake fears made it difficult for the city to grow vertically. Until 1959, a local ordinance limited buildings to a height of 150 feet or 13 stories, whichever was lower. The results of improved structural-testing techniques finally persuaded...
There were no Ibos among them. Fearing death at the hands of the federals, they had chosen to flee north in the path of the advance and now were gathering, some 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 strong, in the roughly 60-mi. by 40-mi. oblong noose into which Biafra has shrunk. The roads are heavily mined, often forcing federal soldiers to take to the thick roadside bush. There they use their submachine guns as deadly scythes, pouring thousands of rounds into the thickets and the few roadside huts they come upon. As in any war, some civilians...
...Republican Convention in Mi ami Beach, Graham's official duty was to deliver the closing benediction. But Nixon also invited him to sit in with G.O.P. leaders at a top-level conference to discuss a running mate. Asked his preference, Billy at once suggested Oregon's Senator Mark Hatfield, because of his deep religious faith (Hatfield is also a devout Baptist.) At his Pittsburgh Crusade last month, Graham introduced Nixon to the audience and praised him for his "generosity," "tremendous constraint of temper," and even "his integrity in counting the score" in golf...
...issue was the Philippines' claim to the Malaysian state of Sabah. The dispute is one of the more complicated quarrels on the international scene, but is not without a certain fascination of its own. The plot goes something like this; Sabah is a 29,000-sq.-mi. chunk of Borneo, rich in timber, rubber, tobacco and untapped mineral wealth. It is located in the Sulu Sea only 20 miles from the southernmost Philippine Islands. Once a haunt of Moro pirates, Sabah was signed over in perpetuity to the British in 1878 by its ruler, the Sultan of Sulu...