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...addition, Russia is shipping oil not only into Western Europe, but through the Bosporus into Egypt and North Africa. For these reasons, new oil concessions are being granted all over the Middle East. Examples: ¶ In Yemen the American Overseas Investment Corp. was exploring a 10,000-sq.-mi. concession in the northwestern coastal plain. It had beaten out the Japanese and the Italians for Yemen rights. ¶ In the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of British Petroleum Co. Ltd. and Compagnie Franchise des Petroles brought in a well that tested out at 2,400 bbl. daily...
...army took over the wobbly and corrupt government of Burma 15 months ago, he has been anxiously trying to settle the country's longstanding border dispute with Red China. But each time agreement seemed near on the three disputed villages and the two large (180 sq. mi.) tracts of land, the Chinese would find that some new "adjustments" would have to be made. Last week, having had a change of heart, Peking brought its long filibuster...
After only five days, complete settlement was reached on a dispute which, according to Ne Win, "has defied solution for 100 years." In exchange for the three villages and one 80-sq.-mi. area, Red China surrendered all claims to a 100-sq.-mi. triangle southeast of Bhamo. The two nations also signed a ten-year nonaggression pact. "We are determined." beamed Premier Chou Enlai, "to make the border between our countries one of peace and friendship." What had changed Peking's mind? In the past year Communist China's once great prestige in India, Burma and Indonesia...
Already, with a population density of 550 per sq. mi., Britain is the West's most thickly settled big nation.- "If you in the U.S. had our population density," Transport Minister Ernest Marples recently remarked in Los Angeles, "you could accommodate the entire population of the world-white, yellow, black, the lot. And all the present population of both the U.S. and the United Kingdom could be accommodated in Texas...
...Pacific Ocean's bottom, landing gently on soft silt that billowed up and looked like dust clouds when the lights were turned on. When the clouds cleared, Piccard and Walsh could see living creatures that moved unbothered by the pressure of more than eight tons per sq. in. The depth was 37,800 ft., which is 1.7 miles deeper than Mount Everest is high, and half a mile deeper than expected...