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...Heating up South Viet Nam's election fever may also have been one motive for heavy North Vietnamese attacks last week against ARVN forces guarding the Cambodian-South Viet Nam border. Despite daily raids by U.S. B-52 bombers against North Vietnamese positions in eastern Cambodia, the South Vietnamese reported heavy casualties. (At week's end, Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny, heading a high-ranking delegation, flew into Hanoi in an effort by the Russians to reassure Hanoi of continued support, despite any detente between Washington and Peking...
...because she wanted to continue working. Her outlook toward abortion is more positive than her mother's ("There was no question in my mind how important it is to plan children"), but even her attitude is not unclouded. After her second abortion, Jane felt weakened and developed a fever; she began to fear that some complication might render her sterile. "I suddenly realized that I did want children," she said. "Then I began to value the ability to conceive...
Until recently, Venezuela, the world's largest oil exporter, remained immune to this nationalistic fever. Now it, too, is succumbing. Last week President Rafael Caldera signed into law a bill nationalizing natural gas. Foreign participation in ownership of banks in Venezuela has been restricted, and a new law setting more stringent standards for investments from abroad is in the offing. But for U.S. investors the most worrisome measures are those that the government has directed toward its foreign-supervised oil concessions...
...American embassy by 30 college students. Many people, especially workers and farmers, either have not heard the news or show scant interest in it. While those who have heard it strongly oppose the Nixon move, and appear worried about future American intentions, there is little evidence yet of fever-pitch anger or anti-American feeling...
...Department of Agriculture is watching for any outbreak of African swine fever, a disease deadlier than anthrax or hog cholera. Swine fever is said to be epidemic in Cuba and it is possible that an imported Cuban ham could carry the disease to Mexico, thence to the U.S. No known vaccine exists to combat...