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...Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia and Ceylon-at the Colombo Conference last December, the Chinese will be forced to withdraw 12½ miles from the present cease-fire line in the northwestern Himalayas. But the resultant demilitarized zone will still recognize China's pre-invasion claim to 14,000 sq. mi. of Indian territory in Ladakh...
...PUERTO Rico. Air fare to San Juan is one of the world's greatest travel bargains - $57-75 for the 1>605 miles from New York City, $116 for the 2,225 rniles from Chicago-and the island's 3,435 sq. mi. offer something for everybody. The Miami-minded may wear their mink stoles in the air-conditioned lobbies of the razzle-dazzle hotels on the Condado strip, or lounge cheek by jowl beside the enormous swimming pools of the Caribe Hilton. They may gamble at La Concha and catch the Vegas-style girlie show...
...conditioned building to 64-ft.-long tractor-trailer vehicles called transporter-erectors (T-E's). These crawl at 15 m.p.h. on level roads, stall to 2 m.p.h. on grades. The 150 silo sites of Malmstrom's 341st Strategic Missile Wing are scattered over 18,000 sq. mi., connected by 3,000 miles of road, only 500 of them paved. At the sites, the TE's raise the birds, slide them gently into place...
...sprawling, empty land consisting of 615,000 sq. mi. of desert and steppe, lying between Russian Siberia and Red China, Outer Mongolia first showed its loyalty to Moscow by roundly condemning China's stooge, Albania. The Mongols went much farther last year, when Luvsantserengiin Tsende, the No. 2 Communist, charged that the "deep moral decay of the Chinese Communist Party" was evidenced by Peking's "groundless and malicious attacks on the Leninist party and the Soviet Union." In taking a hard line against Peking, Outer Mongolia was taking desperate chances, since its territory is surrounded on three sides...
Transported by more than 50 U.S. helicopters, the most ever used on a combat mission in Viet Nam, some 2,000 government troops launched a full-scale attack on Zone D, a 4,500-sq.-mi. Red strong hold north of Saigon that functions as a combination Pentagon and troop assignment center for Communist forces all over South Viet Nam. The government's mission: to clean out the 5,000 Viet Cong troops in the Zone, disrupt the Red communications and intelligence network, and cut Communist supply lines to the rest of the country. But the Viet Cong...