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...products. Not to be outdone, the French dispatched Starlet Mylene Demongeot on a Hong Kong tour to draw attention to a display of French products. The tiny (398 sq. mi.) crown colony is used to being wooed. It is one of the busiest and most prosperous spots in the Orient, important both to neighboring Red China and to foreign companies that want to do business in the Far East. In his annual report to the legislature, Governor Sir Robert Black reported that Hong Kong's economy is growing at the rate of 10% to 15% a year...
...friend in need. Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk last week hailed France for the "incontestable prestige she has been able to recover in the course of the last few years," and burbled that France "is perhaps the only power able to throw a solid bridge between the Occident and Orient, separated by an abyss of incomprehension...
Outcasts Together. In the wake of De Gaulle's words, there were many doubts, many hesitations. For Red China, there was the uncertainty whether it was using France or being used by De Gaulle. For Russia, there was the uneasy knowledge that the nuclear outcast of the Orient had now joined hands with the nuclear outcast of the West...
...bank account in Switzerland, told the press that she was without funds-except for money out of her reach in Viet Nam. She and Le Thuy moved into a four-room suite in the Bel Air mansion of Financier Allen Chase, who has vast investments in the Orient with TV Performer Art Linkletter, and was an occasional visitor at President Diem's palace...
...nine-hour conference with Nikita Khrushchev. A few years ago such a mission to Moscow would have been political suicide for Socialists. But things are different in the balmy atmosphere of the East-West détente. In Moscow, Mollet claims to have detected a tendency of Communism "to orient itself toward truly democratic formulas." To most connoisseurs of Communism, such talk is dangerous nonsense. But French Socialist leaders insist that they have high hopes for a possible deal with the Reds for a single candidate to run against De Gaulle...