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...South African trade with Rhodesia will have to be stopped. If the Vorster government proves recalcitrant, a U.N. force would have to patrol the South African coast, inspect ships, and allow through only what is deemed essential for South Africa. It might even be necessary to clamp down on railway traffic. Such a project would be frightening for Vorster to consider. A successful economic boycott of Rhodesia might convince the world community that something can be done about South Africa...
...jigsaw trenches and concrete bunkers in the DMZ itself. There, according to Marine intelligence, a third North Vietnamese division-the 304th-is preparing to move south. U.S. planes pounded the DMZ again last week, and ranged north into North Viet Nam's Panhandle to blast the Yen Xa railway and highway bridge and flatten a dozen antiaircraft sites. One Navy Phantom was hit by a chunk of shrapnel that slashed through the ejection seat, grazed the pilot's helmet, then ripped out through the canopy. The pilot made it safely back to his carrier. Strike pilots operating near
...stillness was shattered by the hissing and hammering of the world's largest nickel mine and smelter. In the Alberta foothills northwest of Edmonton, the ring of sledge hammer on steel counterpointed the polyglot curses of Portuguese, Greek and Italian gandy dancers, pushing the Alberta Resources Railway 111 miles north to the coal and gypsum deposits of the Peace River country...
...that hem Communist frontiers. Last week two Hungarians escaped to Austria by flying their tiny sports plane at treetop level all the way from Budapest. A pair of Rumanians recently hid for three days under a truckload of tomatoes bound for Austria. Another rode into Vienna in a refrigerated railway car, where he spent seven days and nights huddled between two sides of beef, nibbling raw meat for nourishment. One Hungarian even ran a stolen train across the Austrian border at 50 m.p.h. But of all the tight spots escapees get themselves into, no one could match the Rumanian contortionist...
...coastal capital of French Somaliland (pop. 100,000), a tiny toothmark of rocks, desert and hot wind located on the African side of the mouth of the Red Sea. Its only notable product is a wine concocted from the doom palm, its principal source of income a narrow-gauge railway from Ethiopia to Djibouti's excellent port. Offered its independence in 1958, French Somaliland turned it down, and is now the only French colony in Africa. Three-quarters of the voters in a national plebiscite elected to retain their ties with France...