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Nonetheless, government troops this season face tougher odds than ever before in the 2,000 sq. mi. battle zone, known to the colonists as the Rotten Triangle. The rebels, admitted a Portuguese officer, have "tremendously'' improved their tactics and firepower in recent months. Shuttling freely into Angola from Congolese bases across the 400-mile northern border, wily terrorist bands have replaced machetes and canhangulas, their crude, homemade muzzle-loaders, with Belgian Mausers, U.S. carbines and Czech machine guns. And, unlike Portugal's 50,000-man expeditionary force, they know every inch of the terrain. Says a longtime...
...winner's circle, Chateaugay was still so frisky that he looked ready to run another 1¼ mi. He tossed his head, kicked angrily when a groom tried to drape the traditional garland of roses around his neck. Richer by $108,900, Owner Galbreath, whose Pirates that day had beaten the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0, to take first place in the National League, wisely kept out of range. Why ruin a lovely afternoon...
...prayed for an oil strike. His realm of Abu Dhabi was desperately in need of some good luck. Up and down the Persian Gulf, the states of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran were rolling in oil wealth. But year after year, Abu Dhabi's 25,000 sq. mi. of sand, date palms and barren offshore islands just got hotter, more humid and windswept than before...
...will take Middle East and Algerian oil from tankers and channel it to twelve departments of eastern France, to the northern half of Switzerland and to a southern portion of Germany that accounts for 40% of all West German oil consumption. By eliminating overland haulage and the 2,000-mi.-plus roundabout ocean voyage to North Sea ports, it stands to ease the costs of gasoline and fuel oil; in Karlsruhe last week Esso trimmed gasoline prices ½?-1½? per gallon...
...dozen men in Cairo were groping for the political blueprint for a nation stronger, richer and more powerful than any Arab state for centuries past. If it all works out, the proposed new Middle Eastern power complex will cover 620,300 sq. mi., stretch from the borders of Turkey and Iran to Sudan and Libya, from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean and far down the Red Sea coast. It would have a population of 40 million people (expected to reach 80 million by 1985, greater than the largest nation of Western Europe) and a total gross national product...