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Several Turkish newspapers were eager for a break with Formosa and recognition of Peking, and even Ankara officials were talking about closer cultural and economic ties with Red China. Understandably well pleased, Chen Yi returned home by way of Nepal, stopping off in Katmandu to inspect a shoe factory built by Chinese technicians and to exude peace, friendship and coexistence...
Moving on to Nepal's embassy, Chen got even more excited. "Sheer drivel!" he cried when asked about U.S. demands that Communist guerrilla attacks in South Viet Nam be stopped. "There will be no peace in Indo-China," prophesied Chen, "so long as the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism hang on there." Later, Chen told a touring Swiss journalist: "The Chinese people will not stand idly by as North Viet Nam is attacked. China and North Viet Nam go together like teeth and lips...
...mills. The four West German firms that specialize in sugar machinery have sold $300 million worth; India alone buys five new German mills yearly. Hawaii's Honolulu Iron Works, one of the world's largest makers of integrated sugar mills, has orders from as far away as Nepal and Pakistan. These sugar mills produce a good deal more than sugar-one fact that gives some hope for ending the glut. Bagasse, the residue after cane is squeezed, can be converted into hardboard and tile. Sugar cane also provides a base for paper, plastics, synthetic rubber, toothpaste, fingernail polish...
Rapid Tentacles. Histadrut's possessions include the Workers' Bank, Israel's third largest (135 branch offices and $190 million in deposits); Solel Boneh, a construction firm that has built $100 million worth of projects in eleven African and Asian countries, including Katmandu airport in Nepal and the University of Ife in Western Nigeria; Koor Industries, a complex of 30 factories that turns out everything from cement and glass to steel and light bulbs; the Zim shipping company; and 90% of Israel's domestic bus and truck transport...
...thumbs together in the traditional Buddhist attitude of contemplation, it was completed more than 700 years ago on the seaside near Tokyo, and has withstood tidal waves (1495) and earthquakes (1923). The figure on the left in the cover design, from Thailand, and the one on the right, from Nepal, are familiar examples of the thousands of images of Buddha around the world...