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...first group of U.S. volunteer doctors arrived last September; the current head count is 29, scattered up and down the country working alongside similar teams from Korea, Switzerland, the Philippines, Iran, Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia. The U.S. program limits itself to volunteer physicians under 55. They get free transportation and a $10 per-diem for incidentals. Balanced against this is time lost from practice that amounts to a sacrifice of thousands of dollars...
Instead, following the controversial U.S. example, Callaghan set up machinery for "voluntary" curbs on British investment in the developed countries of the sterling bloc-Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and South Africa. He confirmed a 21% tax on gambling, effective Oct. 24, a tax on casinos starting Oct. 1, and a widely anticipated increase in corporate income taxes, from 35% to 40%. Britain, said Callaghan, will also ask West Germany to absorb the $224 million-a-year cost of keeping British troops there...
...moment, the trip was a fright. As Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, 65, rode into Christchurch, New Zealand, a shot cracked somewhere behind the crowd. Police raced through the neighborhood until they found four young boys playing with a rifle that had discharged, slightly wounding a housewife in the crowd. Unruffled, the Queen Mum went trout fishing in Lake Wanaka, catching nothing, despite her fine fly-fisher's wrist. She did set some sort of local record as the only angler who ever waded in wearing hip boots, sports jacket, and a large string of pearls...
...reached $792.8 million and earnings $45.8 million. This autumn, service to Hawaii will include the first 250-passenger "stretch-model" DC-8s to be delivered. The airline is also gradually taking delivery on $750 million worth of new planes, and hopes to win a Pacific route to Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong and Thailand...
Elsewhere, other elements of Operation Abilene fared better. As the operation concluded at week's end, units of the Big Red One, the Royal Australian Regiment and New Zealand Artillery Battalion counted a total of 59 enemy killed, 22 captured, and a 900-sq.-mi. area cleared of Viet Cong-at least for the time being. That left two major sweeps still in progress: Operation Nevada, a search-and-destroy mission by several U.S. Marine battalions in the Cape Batagan Peninsula, which has so far killed 42 Viet Cong, and Operation Fillmore, a sweep through Phu Yen province...