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Anxious to populate and develop Siberia and determined to fend off Red Chinese incursions, Russia is turning to Japan for capital and technical assistance. Dazzled by all the timber, iron ore, copper, manganese, oil and diamonds so close across the Sea of Japan, the Japanese now refer happily to Siberia as "virgin soil...
...sales of $79 million, and the Colson Corp. ($12 million), a maker of food carts and other equipment. They also own a myriad of smaller companies in the U.S., Canada, Britain and Australia involved in mining and agricultural equipment, cement and fertilizer. Then there are 400,000 acres of timber and farmland in the South and Northwest, plus housing developments and shopping centers in Chicago, Las Vegas and Puerto Rico...
...running for the Senate, is unhappy with McCarthy as well as Humphrey. Once a confidant of Lyndon Johnson, Hughes fell out with the Administration, largely because of the war, and became a Robert Kennedy supporter. Hughes agrees with McCarthy on Viet Nam, but does not regard him as presidential timber. Some other R.F.K. partisans, such as Larry O'Brien, have switched to Humphrey. Others, like Richard Goodwin, have gone to McCarthy; but many have stayed estranged from both candidates and are likely to rally behind George McGovern. And before the convention is called to order, still more may seek...
...claim to the Malaysian state of Sabah. The dispute is one of the more complicated quarrels on the international scene, but is not without a certain fascination of its own. The plot goes something like this; Sabah is a 29,000-sq.-mi. chunk of Borneo, rich in timber, rubber, tobacco and untapped mineral wealth. It is located in the Sulu Sea only 20 miles from the southernmost Philippine Islands. Once a haunt of Moro pirates, Sabah was signed over in perpetuity to the British in 1878 by its ruler, the Sultan of Sulu, in return for an annual honorarium...
...ripples across the roughest terrain like a huge, double-jointed caterpillar. It can cling to 60° slopes, climb over boulders and fallen timber, push its way through water, mud or snow. On less rigorous straightaways, it can whip along at speeds of up to 65 m.p.h. Built by Lockheed engineers as a high-performance, wheel-driven answer to the tank, the curious transport is fittingly called the Twister...