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Portuguese Denial. Casualty figures were uncertain at week's end. One hundred Guineans were reported killed. The number of killed and wounded among the invaders was unknown, but about 100 were captured. Three Europeans -including a five-year-old Yugoslav girl -were killed in the fighting, which went on for some 40 hours in the capital. Lisbon denied any Portuguese connection. In a similar episode, however, Portuguese aircraft recently bombed Senegalese border villages from which guerrillas had been attacking Guinea-Bissau (the attacks quickly ceased...
Although the Yugoslav crowds were somewhat less ebullient than were the Rumanians who mobbed Nixon on his visit to Bucharest last year, they responded warmly whenever he got out of his car to mingle with them. To the dismay of his security guards, Nixon repeatedly followed the same handshaking tactics in Rome and Madrid. The largest crowds of the tour cheered Nixon and Franco, before Dick and Pat flew to London for a relatively quiet visit with Heath and Queen Elizabeth. Nixon's brief stay included a working session devoted largely to Middle East affairs, in which top British...
...work was done by Yugoslav engineers, who operated on a hang-the-cost basis. They imported lampposts from Britain, spent $33,600 on chartered jets to bring in heavy air-conditioning equipment worth $30,800 from the U.S. Philips recalled its Dutch factory workers from their annual vacation so that it could complete a huge order for electronic equipment, including 60 monitors for a closed-circuit TV system and 1,500 pocket radio bleepers for the delegates...
...area of Finland, to roll out 15,000 cars a year, about one-third of which will be sent back to Sweden; the Finnish workers get about half the pay that Saab's Swedish employees do. West Germany's Daimler-Benz has invested $6.6 million in a Yugoslav truck and bus plant and supplies technical help, in return for which it will get spare parts made for Daimler-Benz's German plants at low Yugoslav wage rates. Japanese manufacturers are dickering with India for component parts for sewing machines, autos, radios and bicycles...
...Yugoslav Challenge. According to another wisecrack, first, second and third prizes will be awarded for the best jokes about the Lenin anniversary: 15, ten and five years' exile respectively in Shushen-skoye, the Siberian town to which Lenin was exiled under the Czar. Also making the rounds is the story of an elderly citizen who writes to his party committee for a new apartment, then to the Central Committee and finally to Lenin himself, but receives no answer. He goes to the Central Committee and asks to see Lenin, but is told by the Party Secretary that Lenin died...