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...becoming more and more dependent on the military support of the Soviet Union, which has some 500 advisers in the Sudan. Farther down the Horn of Africa in Somalia (see map), there are an estimated 325 Russian advisers. Last year the Russians began to construct a naval base at Port Sudan on the Red Sea, an installation that will be useful, once the Suez Canal is reopened, in the further expansion of Soviet naval activity in the Indian Ocean. Now the Russians are installing SA-2 antiaircraft missiles to defend the base...
Last week 2,391,916 residents of Haiti voted out to "Papa Doc" Duvalier's proposal that he be succeeded by his hulking son, Jean-Claude, 19. If anybody voted non, the Port-au-Prince papers did not mention...
...while Max was commanding Port-au-Prince's military district, a letter turned up on Papa Doc's desk accusing him and 19 other officers of plotting against the government. The other 19 were executed, but Dédé man aged to coax her father into sparing her husband. She and Max were allowed to go into exile, and Max be came Haiti's Ambassador to Spain. Eighteen months later, Dédé returned to Port-au-Prince and deftly arranged the removal of her enemies from her father's palace staff. When...
...answer-more industry-seemed obvious to South Carolina boosters. They cheered when West Germany's Badische Anilin-&-Soda Fabrik (B.A.S.F.), one of the world's biggest chemical manufacturers, announced plans to build a $200 million dyestuff and petrochemical complex on an estuary of the state's Port Royal Sound. More than a third of the work force in surrounding Beaufort and Jasper counties earns less than $3,000 a year; the new industry would bring jobs and income in a region where poor blacks and some whites actually go hungry...
Much to the surprise of B.A.S.F. and local boosters, a strong and unlikely coalition of conservationists, retired businessmen and black fishermen fought the plan. Despite promised safeguards, they argued, the scheme would probably pollute Port Royal Sound, thus destroying the existing tourism and shell-fishing industries (TIME, Jan. 26, 1970). Last month the giant company completely abandoned its plans...