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...American oil companies. By paying francs for oil from the only major source within the franc zone, France will also save $280 million a year in foreign exchange. Perhaps most important, the agreement is a long step toward returning Algeria politically-as well as financially-to France's sphere of influence. It also serves to strengthen French prestige throughout Africa and to frustrate the economic ambitions of Russia and Red China in left-leaning Algeria...
...government is all too aware of the strategic perils of underpopulation. With 3,000 fighting men in Malaysia (see story above) and a battalion in Viet Nam, half of Australia's combat-ready forces are already tied down in the widening struggle for Southeast Asia. It is a sphere where Australia has only recently begun to extend its economic and political influence. As a noncolonial nation, it is now accepted even by Indonesia as a legitimate Asian presence-and one to be reckoned with...
...deal with the middle-class housewife as a person and being subject to her directions. They prefer to work not singly but in teams, to wear a uniform which helps define their on-the-job role, and to have an office through which the work is scheduled. Within the sphere of house cleaning, say, such a team would thus feel superior to the woman who hires them, no longer fearful of being put down by a housewife. And for her part the housewife is likely to prefer a professional operation in which she is expected not to guide the work...
...members of its onetime Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, no nation hates Japan more bitterly than Korea-and the antipathy is mutual. Koreans, still smarting from 35 years of harsh colonial rule by imperial Japan, regard their former masters as a cruel, crafty race bent on reasserting economic domination of their country. To most Japanese, on the other hand, Koreans are senjin-subhumans-personified by the garlic-reeking Korean thugs who rule Tokyo's underworld. Such acid antagonisms are not easily neutralized in an Asia rent by revolution and rising nationalism. Last week, nonetheless, Japan and South Korea...
...about Ky's chances of survival, but seemed willing to give him a chance. U.S. officials cautioned privately that Ky was too young and impulsive to endure for long in the volatile world of Saigon politics. Ky himself was aware of the dangers that plague anyone in that sphere. "I have told my wife to buy me a coffin," he remarked to reporters. "But as soon as I fall, another member of the team will replace me. There is no question of the government's falling apart as in the past...