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...Soviet-made missiles, some of which are manned by Russian crews, are deployed in scattered batteries in a 50-mile-thick belt that arches from Alexandria on the Mediterranean southward some 180 miles to the Gulf of Suez. Missile batteries have also been set up around major Egyptian airfields. In addition to the relatively old-fashioned SA2, which was familiar to U.S. pilots over North Viet Nam and can effectively strike only planes flying above 3,500 feet, the Soviet Union has installed the new SA-3, which is designed to hit low-flying aircraft...
Such attitudes will hardly help solve what could develop into a serious public health problem. Epidemiologists see little danger that cholera will spread into Western Europe or the U.S., where sanitation is good and ample medical care available. But they are concerned that the disease may spread southward into Africa or westward into South and Central America. Their concern may well be justified. The government of Guinea last week reported that an unidentified intestinal illness has hospitalized 230 people in the country's capital of Conakry. The disease, which sounds suspiciously like cholera, has already killed 27 others...
...grisly flotsam in the Mekong testified to more of the same kind of killing. All of the victims had been shot by automatic gunfire at point-blank range, and many had their hands tied behind their backs. By conservative estimate, several hundred bodies were counted floating southward on the river. It was chillingly reminiscent of the slaughter of Communists in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, when anywhere from 200,000 to 500,000 perished. The regime denied any involvement, speculating feebly that the Vietnamese had been killed in "boat sinkings." The fact is that Cambodia's new leaders have...
...belief that America was still the Beautiful. Boyle follows the river down from its source at Mount Marcy (where the great conservationist Theodore Roosevelt received the news of McKinley's death by assassination) and finds its enemies innumerable. Thrifty upriver towns happily send their raw sewage roiling southward toward foul and wicked Manhattan. Tankers leak oil. Corporations discharge incalculable quantities of industrial waste. They always seem able to find a tame scientist to testify before civic bodies that acids, oils, oxides and industrial Dreck of all sorts are only minimally harmful. When that fails, they pay minimal fines...
...Pacific power, Japan would inevitably have to make more of an effort for its own security and self-defense. Premier Eisaku Sato has acknowledged that Japan must pay more attention to its own military responsibilities after it regains sovereignty over Okinawa, thereby expanding its frontier 400 miles southward to embrace 1,000,000 more citizens. "Regarding the problem of Asian security," said Sato in a speech last month, "it is Japan that is gradually going to play the leading role, while the U.S. will be cooperating from the sidelines...