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...answered when I knocked at his door. Dressed in black shirt and pants, pale and haggard, he invited me into his single motel room. Open suitcases and stray newspaper articles lay on the floor and beds. Until last week he had been sleeping on floors in the rooms of BU students. Then his lawyer, Joseph Balliro, who's defending him without fee, grew exasperated with communications problems, since Baird was moving around so much, and put up the $100 for a week's lease. When I spoke to Baird, the lease had expired three days ago, but he was hoping...
...shadowless reaches of the Spanish Sahara, some 40 miles from the Atlantic Coast, the dusty oasis of Bu-Craa swelters in the middle of a moonscape of endless dunes and burned-out scrub. It is an ancient cross roads for camel caravans and fierce des ert nomads in their swirling burnooses. For years, Spanish Foreign Legionnaires in their whitewashed forts knew Bu-Craa as a lonely corner of the end of the world...
...will be lonely no longer. Last week the Spanish government announced that at Bu-Craa, in partnership with the International Minerals & Chemical Corp. of Skokie, Ill., it will soon begin mining the world's richest phosphate deposits, delivering the raw material of chemical fertilizer to an expanding market all over the world...
Experimental mining has begun at Bu-Craa, and a small village has been built by Spain for the first 500 workers. Desert roads have been cut and bids are being taken for a $30 million conveyor belt to carry ore to the sea. If all goes well, within a decade the lonely oasis could become the source of enough fertilizer to help feed 68 million people a year. Thus the whole world has a stake in the project's success...
...Bu this indignation is misdirected. Until the wall, was erected millions of people, carrying with them money, and technical know-how, deserted their country. And many of these people were consciously lured away by the West Germans. In an open letter to the Social Democratic Party of West Germany in February 1966, Walter Ulbricht wrote: "We have not forgotten, and shall not forget, how, supported and guided by the government of the West German Federal Republic, systematic attempts were made to disorganize the health system of the [GDR German Democratic Republic] by enticing medical specialists. This disruptive activity was systematically...