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Fortunes & Murder. From his headquarters hamlet of Brasil, pudgy Victor Merchán, 52, wields power in a 5-sq.-mi. area, on the fringes of which anti-Communist coffeemen patrol their land with rifles. Born of coffee-bean pluckers but now enjoying a fortune from his tax rake-off, Merchán studied two years in Moscow, returned to indoctrinate Colombians and, around 1930, incited peasants to overrun most of the area's coffee plantations...
...years, one of Africa's busiest agitators was a dapper French Camerounese medical doctor named Felix-Roland Mou-mié. In 1955, at the age of 29, he privately wrote Vyacheslav Molotov: "If ever I succeed in taking power in my country, I assure you I will build a socialist republic." But he indignantly denied that he was a Communist, described himself as no more than a pious Presbyterian. He was a familiar of the U.N.'s corridors, arguing that only he represented the will of the French Cameroun people. He turned up in Moscow, was always welcomed...
...start, P.G. & E. is spending $510 million during the next 15 months, one-fifth as much as it spent in the last 14 years. In addition to the Humboldt Bay plant, P.G. & E. is laying a 1,404-mi. pipeline from the vast gas fields in western Canada to California. The new line, called the "Big Yard," since it uses 36-in. pipe, will be the biggest pipeline between the West Coast and Canada, easing the demand on the heavily burdened pipelines from Texas. The pipe is coated on the inside with a high gloss plastic which speeds up transmission...
Lemus downfall lay in his steelhanded concept of duty. By long-established custom the wealthy families who control the tiny, crowded (305 persons per sq. mi.) coffee country allow the military brass to run the government so long as they keep order. Lemus tackled the problem of order keeping, aggravated both by agents of Fidel Castro and by one of the Americas' broadest gulfs between haves and have-nots (average daily agricultural wage: 60?). He outlawed unruly opposition parties, saw to it that persuasive opponents of the regime were jailed. Eight weeks ago Lemus got too tough even...
Just why tiny (10,630 sq. mi.) Albania, which has less area than West Virginia and fewer people than Detroit, should take Red China's part against the Russians is something of a mystery. Part of the answer may be its poverty; Albania has only 5,000 cars, trucks and buses, like Red China feels the need of keeping the class war at fever pitch to keep her people from rebelling against austerity. But another reason is historical and geographical accident: Tito's Yugoslavia, Albania's archenemy and neighbor, is currently the favorite target for Chinese criticism...