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Portugal is determined not to be forced out of Angola, and is racing against time to regain the confidence of the politically indifferent African masses. Itself one of Europe's most backward countries, politically and economically, Portugal has not made enough headway in coping with the violent forces of the African present...
Exports: Oil, timber. Per capita income: $135. U.S. aid (1961): $100,000. U.S. Steel developing rich manganese mines; huge ore deposits also promising. Problems: backward hinterland, inadequate civil service...
...prevent Singapore from becoming an Asian Cuba off Malaya's coast and to stimulate the development of the backward Borneo territories, Malayan Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman last year proposed a sensible solution: the formation of a Malaysian Federation...
Most of the North African Jews, who follow the stricter Sephardic tradition, regard the Ashkenazim in France as doctrinally unorthodox and lax in their observance of religious duties. French Jews, in turn, privately dismiss the Sephardim as "backward and bigoted," fear the "superstitions" that the newcomers could impose upon Judaism in France...
...rich markets of suburbia, added to their basic stock in trade-appliances-most of the lines of merchandise that department stores carry. Korvette's also began to put out its own private labels, from Kor-Val vitamins to the booming XAM stereo hi-fi line (named in a backward way after Max, an alley cat of Ferkauf's acquaintance...