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...enabling North Viet Nam to keep the war going, and Laotian rice has helped keep Ho's warriors fed. The U.S. regularly bombs the Trail to slow the flow. But unlike Hanoi, Washington has been unwilling to violate the ban on foreign troops in Laos and strike directly overland to interdict the enemy traffic southward...
...side and nationalistic independent states on the other, Malawi lies in the extreme Southern end of the Great Rift Valley which stretches North and South almost the entire length of the continent. As a land-locked nation, it must depend on its good relations with surrounding states to insure overland trans-shipment to the sea. There-in lies Malawi's greatest problem, and President Banda's response to such dependence has embroiled a formerly little-known country in a major struggle...
...well until postwar supplies of new cars caught up with demand: then, competition from Detroit's Big Three put Kaiser-Frazer out of the auto business. Kaiser repaid his loan, as always, but lost $52 million in seven years. He did better building Jeeps, having bought out Willys-Overland. Kaiser Industries still produces Jeeps in the U.S. and 32 other countries...
...world market. Recently it established Ford of Europe, Inc. to provide better overall control of its British and Continental subsidiaries. Last week Ford was market building again outside the U.S., this time looking south to Latin America. The company announced it is buying a majority interest in Willys-Overland do Brasil, Brazil's second largest automaker...
Along with the Kaiser interest, Ford is buying a 14% share in Willys-Overland do Brasil held by Renault of France, whose Gordinis roll off the same assembly lines. The remaining shares are held by 45,000 Brazilian investors who now, to their delight, become partners of Henry Ford. Renault, which is Kaiser's partner in an Argentine car company called Industrias Kaiser Argentina, will acquire a controlling share of that firm. Renault will buy up a major part of Kaiser's 30% interest, as well as 14% held by two Argentine banks. Ford will also acquire Transax...