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Strategic Strait. Whether or not anyone buys the theory of collusion with China, eyebrows in the West rose at news of the surprise visit to Djakarta in November by Red Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi. Last week, while Russia was among those trying to head off Indonesia's U.N. walkout, Peking applauded it, ridiculing the world organization as "a vile place for a few powers to share the spoils." In any case, the objectives of Sukarno and Mao Tse-tung on Malaysia clearly converge: both want the downfall of its pro-West regime-a prospect that holds grave political...
...almost as fast as it arrived. Christmas week was typical: 30 raiders debarked in southwestern Johore State, took to the adjacent swampland; within hours, three were dead, the rest captured. Next day the British frigate Ajax intercepted seven sampans carrying 22 raiders trying to sneak across the Malacca Strait to Malaysia...
...highly desperate strait to get that airplane in the air and back to Washington...
...Superhighway of the Sun," a four-lane expressway that avoids all cities and villages on its course, will move steadily southward and eventually connect with Sicily at the Strait of Messina, serving as a vital economic life line for the entire region. It is only the latest of Italy's ambitious efforts to help Il Mezzogiorno (which means midday) move, in one great leap, from a medieval society directly into the age of automation...
What next? Bridge builders are now talking about suspensions almost two miles long in a single span, and such talk is likely to lead to startling results. Prospects, perhaps sooner than later: bridges vaulting Italy's Messina strait, Turkey's Bosporus and New York's Long Island Sound...