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...emphasis is on technical assistance in agronomy, water and soil development, highway planning, port development, fish breeding, sewage disposal, nutrition and handicrafts. Israeli experts have established citrus plantations in Madagascar and Uganda, a steamship line and a 16,000-acre cattle ranch in Ghana, a beekeeping industry in Senegal and massive poultry farms in Zambia and the Congo. In Togo, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Ghana, the Israelis have shown fascinated governments how to operate national lotteries...
...subsidies and tariffs dictate. One Antwerp grain dealer set some kind of agro record by shipping the same boatload of wheat back and forth between Antwerp and Rotterdam for days. The cargo was never unloaded, but simply relabeled with the name of a different kind of grain at each port...
...reader first meets Peter as he returns after several years' absence to the New England village of Rocky Port to spend the summer with his twice-divorced mother. It is 1964. The village, which seems hard by Stonington, Conn., where Mary McCarthy once lived, is much changed. In vain his mother, who believes in old-fashioned cookery, harangues local grocers for tapioca and fresh fish; she also scours local shops for real jelly glasses. She regards the changes only as part of a dreadful decline in traditional American virtues. What his mother mourns, Peter misses too. But he suspects...
...Vietnamese had in fact been drifting westward and waiting cautiously to see what action the rightist military junta of Lon Nol-who had overthrown neutralist Prince Norodom Sihanouk the month before-would take against them. And a major ex post facto rationale for the invasion-that it closed the port of Sihanoukville-is an even greater fabrication: authoritative Administration sources now state that Sihanoukville was closed to the Communists by Sihanouk himself in late 1969 in an effort to force the North Vietnamese in Cambodia to recognize Sihanouk's territorial rights at the end of their war with the United...
...carrying off the mountain bit by bit is done by huge 450-ton power shovels that chew off 25-ton chunks of ore in a single bite and dump them into 75-ton trucks. The ore is then crushed and transported by 150-car, mile-long freight trains to Port Hedland, where it is loaded aboard freighters at the rate of 10,000 tons an hour. The boom has turned Port Hedland into the world's fifth busiest port...