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Until recently, sea-oriented old "Gitmo," the besieged 45-sq.-mi. U.S. enclave on the southeast coast of Communist Cuba, counted only 300 combat marines, and their vintage M1 rifles were hardly a match for fast-firing Belgian weapons sported by Castro's militia. Now Guantánamo is grimly digging...
...latest Communist state to side with Moscow in the Sino-Soviet dispute is Outer Mongolia, 615,000 sq. mi. of pastureland and rolling hills set smack between the two quarreling titans...
Nevertheless, Verwoerd last week announced "self-government" next year for the biggest Bantustan, the sprawling (16,500 sq. mi.), isolated Transkei, on the southeast coast, traditional homeland of the 2,000,000 Xhosa people. "The Transkei," Verwoerd declared, "will have a wholly black Parliament and Cabinet. The white inhabitants will have no political rights there." But the government would still retain control over the Transkei's foreign affairs, defense, and justice. Many of the Xhosa themselves seemed happy enough; being largely illiterate, they were hardly aware of what the plan was all about. The protests will come from...
...training mission. But the U.S. has implied that Duvalier will get no large-scale Alliance for Progress loans until he institutes some basic reforms and muzzles his thugs. To cut off all help, Washington argues, would mean even more misery for Haiti's jampacked (almost 400 per sq. mi.) population. As a European diplomat in Port-au-Prince put the dilemma: "If you help Haiti, you are keeping a gangster in power. If you don't, you're being cruel to a poor Negro people...
Much of the problem lies in the character of the sprawling megalopolis (454.9 sq. mi.), whose inhabitants commute by car-a habit not conducive to newspaper reading. Within Los Angeles County limits are 73 separate municipalities-many of them, e.g., Beverly Hills and Santa Monica, embedded inside the city of Los Angeles itself. A population explosion in the surrounding suburbs has emphasized the role of the county's suburban press, which fields 23 dailies, all of which compete with the big-city dailies for both readers and ads. In these communities, with their glittering, fast-growing shopping centers, local...