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...phenomenon. So many Frenchmen want to spend their vacations au naturel that the government has turned over to them most of Cap d'Agde, one of seven resort centers being developed along the "new Riviera" between Marseille and the Spanish border. The Fountainebleau of the bare set is Port Ambonne, a year-old, $4,000,000 complex on the Cap d'Agde, which has its own yacht basin and supermarket for nudists. Families have paid up to $26,000 for two-or three-room condominiums in an amphitheater-shaped apartment tower that curves around a nude-swimming pool...
...Mexican government helped, too. A special border-zone agreement with the U.S. allowed American manufacturers to assemble components in Mexico at a cost low enough for them to match overseas competition. An extension of Tijuana's duty-free port status encouraged shopkeepers to expand their inventories of French perfumes, Pucci and Cardin fashions, Limoges china and English woolens...
...cutbacks will ultimately jeopardize Israel. Unilateral troop withdrawals from Europe, as McGovern recommends, might encourage the Russians to be more aggressive in the Middie East. Recently, McGovern pledged to end all aid to the Greek colonels; the Nixon Administration, on the other hand, is planning to build a home port for the Sixth Fleet near Athens. American Jews who visit Israel read papers singing the praise of Nixon...
...proclamation was the latest explosion of enmity between East Africa's blacks and Asian immigrants, many of whom were similarly driven out of Kenya in 1967. Large numbers of Asians arrived in East Africa at the turn of the century to help build a railway inland from the port of Mombasa. By the time Uganda was granted independence by the British in 1962, the Asians, who were better educated and more enterprising than the majority of the Africans with whom they dealt, ran four out of five businesses in the country, and had monopolized the important coffee and cotton...
...blood disease) to take part in last month's singlehanded transatlantic sailboat race. But Globe Girdler Sir Francis Chichester sailed off anyway, was reported missing for several days, and became the object of extensive air and sea searches before he was located and helped back to port. Stung by continuing criticism, the aging mariner has now clearly identified his albatross-cancer of the spine-and attempted to justify his entry in the race...