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Domestic Issue. Of the three issues, Brandt's pronouncements on the Oder-Neisse attracted by far the most attention. By tirelessly maintaining that the former German lands east of the two rivers-40,177 sq. mi. in all-were only temporarily under Polish administration, Bonn hoped eventually to use its nonrecognition as a bargaining point if and when a peace conference is held to end World War II. But West Germany actually lost most of this leverage as Poland incorporated the former German lands into its own country and expelled the Germans there. Brandt obviously feels that the issue...
...sense of proprietary pride as for profit. Himself one of the nation's most highly regarded real estate planners, Dowling won fame for his design of Philadelphia's pioneering downtown Penn Center project. He also put City deep into such investments as Sterling Forest, a 30-sq.-mi. sylvan tract 40 miles from Manhattan being developed for corporate research facilities (among its tenants: International Nickel, Reichhold Chemicals). Other City properties range from Florida retirement communities to shopping centers as well as two Broadway theaters...
...overall situation in strategic III Corps, a 10,000-sq.-mi. area ringing the capital zone of Saigon, remains guardedly favorable. There is firm evidence that if the government reacts promptly enough, it may be able to recoup practically all the losses sustained...
...began when Ceylon, apparently emboldened by last month's decision of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to cede 350 sq. mi. of the worthless Rann of Kutch to Pakistan, suddenly announced that it, and not India, controlled the uninhabited island. The Ceylonese, who are predominantly Buddhist, based their claim largely on the fact that St. Anthony's church on Kachcha Tivu fell within the diocese of the Roman Catholic bishop of the northern Ceylonese city of Jaffna...
There are no doubts in the Ivory Coast. Eight years after the country won its independence from France and installed him as President, Houphouët has created one of Black Africa's few real success stories, leading his tiny (127,800 sq. mi.) West Coast nation in a massive development drive that stresses solid economic achievement over showy industrial schemes. At a time when other African leaders are preaching a hazy socialism, Houphouët is a shrewd conservative who insists that "politics is the art of accommodating human and material realities...