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...face of it. the cable seemed an invitation to opportunity. The Chinese Nationalists certainly thought so-they voted against it in the U.N. The Russians appeared to think so-they withheld their veto so that the invitation could be transmitted. By their cheap conquest of one island outpost, the Red Chinese had, in a sense, persuaded the Western powers to sue for truce. Peking, without being asked to justify its behavior in any way, was being given the opportunity to use the U.N. as a forum to push its claim to Formosa and its demand for U.N. membership...
Cold Cold War. The Argentine flotilla set out from Buenos Aires in mid-December to carry supplies and men to Argentina's eight permanent antarctic outposts, and to bring back the men whose one-year tours of polar duty were done. On the shore of a bay at 78° south, 39° west, the expedition built a ninth year-round outpost-a weather station-and left 20 men to staff it. Buenos Aires claimed that it was the southernmost permanent base in the antarctic...
...cubic feet of rubble--inflicted on all of Germany. Destruction was a chastising lesson in itself but since the war the West Berliner has had newer reminders of totalitarianism right in his own yard. He can never forget that he is 200 miles from the nearest western outpost, that sudden disappearances are commonplace, and that 350 refugees pour into his sector every...
Last week TIME Correspondent Israel Shenker found Carrington at Yalemba, a jungle outpost in the Congo. There Carrington and his wife run a thriving mission school and are the guiding spirits of a community of some 500 natives. But John Carrington, 40, is now a missionary of another sort. Since only one pupil in ten knows how to speak on the drums, he has planned a special course to keep the ancient art alive...
Racing barefoot over sharp stones, he escaped into the night. At dawn he saw familiar Mt. Stougara, and knew that the Greek border was only a short distance away. He skirted an Albanian outpost, and an hour later met a Greek army patrol...