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...mount their renewed threat in Quang Tri province-and, indeed, in much of the rest of South Viet Nam -is that they are receiving ever larger amounts of aid from their allies. Intelligence sources reported last week that the Chinese and Russians, who have been quarreling about the transit of Russian aid across China by rail, have reached an agreement that will speed the flow. North Viet Nam's Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh went off to make a pitch for even more aid in Peking, Moscow and East Berlin, where the East German Communists are holding their party...
...Cambodian Prince Norodom Siha nouk's neutrality for his nation is self-styled in faintly Peking tints. His Royal Khmer army is Communist-armed and equipped. Though he has broken off diplomatic relations with the U.S. for alleged border violations, Sihanouk conveniently ignores the use of Cambodia for transit, resupply and sanctuary by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. It was thus all the more odd when the prince, in a rambling speech last week, complained that Communist bands were shooting up villages in Battambang Province in northwest Cambodia, far from the Viet Nam border...
...Soter says in the current issue of Sky and Telescope, its increased angular velocity around the sun just matches its rotational rate about its own axis. To an observer on Mercury, the sun at this point would appear to stand still in its east-to-west transit of the skies. Then, as Mercury picked up even more speed, whipped past its point of closest approach to the sun, and began to slow down as it receded farther out into space again, the sun would appear to move backward toward the east, stop again, and then resume its journey...
...December, the 550-mile oil pipeline stretching from Kirkuk, Iraq, across 305 miles of Syria to the Mediterranean ports of Baniyas and Tripoli went as dry as the arid land through which it snakes. The reason: in a dispute with Western-owned, London-based Iraq Petroleum Co.* over transit and terminal fees, socialist Syria squelched the flow...
...afire, and all parties involved lost from the shutdown, but the Syrians were clearly winners in the settlement. l.P.C. agreed to raise the transit-terminal royalties that it pays to Syria by a hefty 50%, to about $42 million. Also, it paid retroactive fees back to Jan. 1, 1966, of $14 million. l.P.C. lost its bid to cut the featherbedded work force down to 1,000 from 3,400 (hired to repair the pipeline blown up by Syria during the Suez crisis...