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...odds on survival seemed good. The Chandlers control a wealthy empire consisting of holdings in real estate, oil, timber, a paper mill, a vast cattle ranch, an insurance firm and Los Angeles television station KTTV. There were millions available to underpin their new paper in its deliberate campaign to wrest afternoon readership away, from Hearst's Herald-Express, a flamboyant blend of blaring headlines, race results, and juicy sex and crime stories. Self-styled as an independent-Republican daily, the new Mirror contrasted sharply with the stout, dull Times. The Mirror gave the news a bright, if not particularly...
...fence follows the border like a giant snake, twisting and turning, dipping and curving around fingers of Wrest German land that jut into East Germany. On the Elbe River north of Helmstedt, East German patrol boats watch out for refugees. At Schnackenburg, the Communist patrol boats share the river with West German customs boats, inspecting the traffic that flows into East Germany. "It's hard to believe that this is the Elbe, and that these people speak German," says one West German customs official. "We haven't exchanged words in five years...
...Feed the Engine. Even a hint that the international monetary rescue agency might not be able to do its job weakens confidence in the currency structure of the entire free world. Keenly aware of this, I.M.F. Managing Director Per Jacobsson of Sweden went to Vienna determined to wrest from the most prosperous member nations a pledge to put up the money for a special $6 billion reserve that the Fund could call on in a crisis. Since all I.M.F. nations have a stake in the health of the dollar-a large percentage of their own reserves are in dollars-they...
...they were suspected of planning to escape to the West or of encouraging others to do so. Hordes of uniformed "Free German Youth" youngsters were sent out to inspect every East German's rooftop television and F.M. aerial, tear down those that were pointed toward the stations of Wrest Berlin or West Germany. "Anyone listening to Western radio or television broadcasts is a traitor," cried an editorial in Leipzig's Sächsische Zeitung...
...work on China's farms. Irrigation ditches and wells were being dug, and cadres were hard at work trying to plant winter vegetables and fast-ripening varieties of wheat. Said Radio Peking: "Sowing had to be carried out a second, or even a fifth or sixth time to wrest a harvest when the shoots were killed by scorching sun or floods." Reported one refugee from Kwangtung province: "Everybody is half dead in my village. They work from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. and all they get is seven ounces of rice and a few sticks of vegetables...