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...better food, but the British jail is more comfortable). There were also three sets of laws (French, British and native) and three governing units, including the joint administration that operates under the authority of the other two. When the French moved to new hilltop offices in the capital of Port Vila Oust Vila to the British), it was discovered that the Tricolor was flying higher than the Union Jack, and so the French had to trim their flagpole. Out of such contretemps, the condominium acquired the nickname of Pandemonium...
Despite the tribal ways, the capital of Port Vila is being rapidly transformed into a flourishing business center. Reason: when political tensions were rising in the Caribbean during the late 1960s, a number of financiers discovered that the New Hebrides were both peaceful and taxfree. In the last five years, 950 overseas companies have moved in, including eight active banks and representatives of 47 others...
Ford's most important stop was with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev at an isolated compound of wooden and concrete dachas amid oak, birch and pine trees about 15 miles north of Vladivostok, home port for the Soviet Pacific fleet. Soon after reaching the camp by special train from the military airfield where Air Force One had landed, Ford and Brezhnev sat down in a conference room overlooking Amur Bay for talks that lasted all afternoon, into the evening and part of the next morning...
Vladivostok is the home port of the Soviet Pacific fleet. The harbor freezes in the winter but is kept open by icebreakers. Naval war games have frequently been staged offshore. That fact, combined with the heavy concentration of vessels in its harbor and the presence of a missile base, explains why the city has been out of bounds to foreigners...
...another revolutionary turned politician, Fidel Castro. Meanwhile, there were six dead in more border clashes along the Israel-Lebanon frontier last week, and there was a dramatic partial mobilization of Israeli forces directed toward Syria, which, according to Rabin, was unloading some 20 shiploads of Soviet arms at the port of Latakia. Alarming as the mobilization was, neither the Israelis nor Kissinger felt that hostilities were imminent. Indeed, earlier in the week Rabin had emphasized that Israel is prepared to carry out the disengagement agreements and expects the Arabs to do the same. But he also warned: "If they force...