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...future; last week Russia acknowledged that most of the Trans-Siberian Railway had been off limits to foreigners since June 1. The ban was presumably imposed to prevent non-Russians from viewing Soviet troop movements and military hardware along the border. On the following pages are rare, recent color photographs taken in the troubled border areas. They are the work of an enterprising Italian freelance photographer who, just prior to the ban, completed a trip through Siberia arranged by Intourist, the official Soviet tourist agency...
Soviet military officials make no secret of the readiness campaign. 'First Deputy Defense Minister Sergei L. Sokolov recently wrote that "a straining of the U.S.S.R.'s entire military preparedness" was necessary to deal with recent Maoist provocations...
...fondest dreams of General Francisco Franco is to reclaim Gibraltar for Spain, and in pursuit of that aim he has gone to considerable lengths in recent years. In order to convince Britain that it ought to abandon its claim to the Rock, Spain has choked off vehicular border traffic, forbidden overflights of Spanish territory by British military aircraft, and even secured a United Nations General Assembly judgment condemning Gibraltar's "colonial situation." Last week, in reaction to the proclamation of a new constitution for the self-governing colony, Spain struck the harshest blow yet: it closed the border completely...
...last year-and 81% of the exemptions were granted. West Berlin, where residents are draft-exempt, is increasingly used as an asylum for young men who want to avoid military service. They stay there as students or workers until they pass draft age. In recent weeks, three Bundeswehr officers-two of whom held sensitive positions-have defected to East Germany. There is an increase of minor sabotage, consisting largely of motor damage and destruction of weapon parts...
Defense Minister Gerhard Schroder surfaces every few weeks or so to promise improvements in the armed forces, but he inevitably adds that reforms must not take place too hastily. An extreme view has been put forward by Major Rudolf Woller, president of the Association of Bundeswehr Reservists. In a recent speech, he said: "If in the subconscious of the nation the impression takes hold that it is not really protected by the German contribution to the defense system, the leadership of the state could be forced to a change of course toward neutralism...