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...overall situation in strategic III Corps, a 10,000-sq.-mi. area ringing the capital zone of Saigon, remains guardedly favorable. There is firm evidence that if the government reacts promptly enough, it may be able to recoup practically all the losses sustained...
...began when Ceylon, apparently emboldened by last month's decision of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to cede 350 sq. mi. of the worthless Rann of Kutch to Pakistan, suddenly announced that it, and not India, controlled the uninhabited island. The Ceylonese, who are predominantly Buddhist, based their claim largely on the fact that St. Anthony's church on Kachcha Tivu fell within the diocese of the Roman Catholic bishop of the northern Ceylonese city of Jaffna...
There are no doubts in the Ivory Coast. Eight years after the country won its independence from France and installed him as President, Houphouët has created one of Black Africa's few real success stories, leading his tiny (127,800 sq. mi.) West Coast nation in a massive development drive that stresses solid economic achievement over showy industrial schemes. At a time when other African leaders are preaching a hazy socialism, Houphouët is a shrewd conservative who insists that "politics is the art of accommodating human and material realities...
...disputed area is a 3,500-sq.-mi. stretch of the Rann of Kutch, a desolate stretch of salt flat and sand dunes that is located on the coast of the Arabian Sea between the two countries and inhabited chiefly by flamingos and wild asses. Pakistan and India fought a number of sharp engagements in the Rann in early 1965, but agreed to submit the conflict to binding international arbitration before a larger border war broke out a few months later over Kashmir. The tribunal turned down Pakistan's bid for the area...
Wynne's business, selling machines and goods to Communist countries, provided ideal cover and a frequent excuse to travel to Moscow. London's MI-6 spent five years preparing Wynne for his spy role before he ever met Colonel Penkovsky. Part of the training was a routine initiation into the ar cane arts of a courier: how to conceal film, where to hide messages, what to do if the Soviets plant a girl in his hotel room. But one part consisted of a brutal simulation of what Wynne could expect in a Soviet prison if he was captured...