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...Guatemala has the most frustrating gap. Mexico's fine paved stretch of the highway reaches the border at a different point from where Guatemala's road net touches the Mexican border. At present a 164-mile, $35 railway-flatcar haul bridges the gap. With $1,425,000 granted last October by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, construction is getting started to connect the loose ends. But Nixon, who wants to help anti-Communist President Carlos Castillo Armas with public works, backs a speedup (with $20 million to $30 million in U.S. aid) that will quickly close...
...Costa Rica stops the driver at the border with a seven-mile gap near the scene of January's revolutionary fighting, but work now going on should open this stretch to traffic by May 1. At the other end of the Costa Rican sector, after a breathtaking mountain drive offering glimpses of two oceans, the highway dwindles into nothing more than 134 miles of lines on a surveyor's map. Current construction...
Despite great advances, Israel is still in a critical economic condition. Her natural markets and sources of raw materials in the Middle East have been destroyed by a boycott which the Arabs promise will last as long as Israel does. Her annual trade gap with friendly countries is still about two hundred million dollars. Her financial stability is completely dependent on aid from the world Jewish community, loans from the United States, and German reparations, but none of these sources can be expected to keep flowing indefinitely. Unless Israel can solve her economic problems, the Arabs will have...
...week to the House of Commons by Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. Butler. Amid jeers from the Labor benches and gasps from the Tories, Butler warned that Britain, which earned a surplus of $560 million last year, is slipping back into the red. Inflation threatens, the dollar gap is widening, sterling is depressed...
...scholarship plan would close the present gap between the time a prospective candidate graduates from college and the day he actually receives an assignment as effectively as an academy. Foreign Service scholarship holders would be able to dispose of such troublesome incidentals as security clearances while in college and could then pass directly into the Foreign Service on graduation. The scholarship system can also further the State Department's aim of establishing closer contact between the Foreign Service and the population at large, by aiming for diversity among the award-winners...