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Four Kings. It is relatively small to begin with, about the size of Oregon (94,000 sq. mi.). It contains the source of the Nile in Lake Victoria, which, next to Lake Superior, is the world's largest freshwater lake. On its western borders rise the famed Mountains of the Moon; on the east, the towering 14,178-ft. Mount Elgon. In between stretch 500 miles of open meadow and sparse forest filled with elephants, gazelles, elands, lions and leopards. Typically, Uganda is also unstable, since its 6,845,000 people are riven by tribal, religious, economic and linguistic...
Britain's Aden Colony consists of 75 sq. mi. of bleak volcanic rock at the southwestern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Though hot as hell's hinges, Aden is a prosperous city of some 300,000; its port, one of the world's busiest, has virtually the only good harbor on the 3,400-mile sea haul from Suez to India. Aden is also headquarters for the 40,000 troops of Britain's Middle East Command who stand guard over the Persian Gulf. In the setting sun of empire, Britain has been shoved out of bases...
...extended their influence inland by establishing a protectorate over a jumble of sheiks, emirs and sultans ruling such unlikely states as Lahej, Qishn, Upper Aulaqi and Lower Yafa. Submission was all that Britain required: not until recently did the British build schools or roads throughout the 112,000 sq. mi. of the protectorate...
...nearest encampment of Russian forces is only 36 miles from the U.S. naval base at Guantdnamo, Cuba. Motorized Communist-bloc artillery waits at the end of specially cleared roads pointing toward the perimeter. Inside the 45-sq.-mi. base (see map), the 4,000-plus U.S. sailors and marines hold their tempers, their fire and their ground. Last week TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers flew out of Guantdnamo with a report on the base's situation and readiness...
Trinidad has more to celebrate. A 1,863-sq.-mi. chunk of green hills slightly larger than the state of Rhode Island, lying below the southernmost end of the Windward Islands, it is separated from the Venezuelan coast by ten miles of water and oil derricks. Rich with sugar as well as with oil, Trinidad has the highest per capita income ($480) in the British West Indies. It exports the second largest barrelage of crude oil in the Commonwealth (after Canada), earns a national income of $438 million, compared with the $570 million earned in Jamaica, which has twice...