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...Winkle Them Out." The American reinforcements will have the benefit of some U.S. preparations. Twelve U.S. Special Forces camps have already been set up in the Delta. The U.S. Navy patrols its 2,500-mi. labyrinth of rivers and canals with 71 PT-type boats and three hovercraft. Along the coast, patrol boats of the Navy's Operation Market Time have cut down on Communist gunrunning. As elsewhere, it will be difficult to separate friend from foe-demonstrated last week when U.S. Air Force jets strafed and bombed a Delta hamlet near the village of Truong Trung...
Aerial photos taken over the sparse, seasonally flooded fields of northern Colombia-50 miles east of Monteria in the San Jorge River district-first revealed what even the earliest conquistadors overlooked or could not see: more than 1,400 sq. mi. of intricate clay corrugations, built generally at right angles to the several rivers in the area and standing in bold relief among the numerous waterways. The ridges are as much as five feet high, 20 feet wide, and a mile long. Other ridges run in checkerboard patterns, while a third type extends in long parallels without apparent orientation...
President Banda found himself in control of that rarest of African commodities-a politically stable nation. And Banda is the man who keeps it that way. A natty, gnomelike former physician, Banda led his tiny (46,000 sq. mi.) country's fight for independence from the Central African Federation, became Prime Minister in 1964, and has since ruled the impoverished, landlocked nation with autocratic firmness. He jails critics at will, assumes sweeping powers to restrict the movements and statements of anyone in the country. Just to avoid confusion, Banda has even decreed that no Malawi businesses can have...
...Hand from Britain. Banda is speaking as the leader of a country that needs all the friends it can get. Plagued by too many people (106 per sq. mi.) and too few natural resources, the country is scarcely self-sufficient, and survives partly on the earnings of 230,000 Malawians who migrate to South Africa, Rhodesia and Zambia for temporary jobs in mines and factories. Though independent, Malawi also counts heavily on British help. Total British aid to Malawi in the next three years will run between $25 million and $28 million a year, making Banda's tiny republic...
...passenger) liners and six DC-8F freighters, for $220 million. In a bid to capture still more of the swelling market for transports, Douglas last week rolled out the first production model of its DC-8-62, the world's longest-range (5,750 mi.) commercial jet, for flight testing. The company already has orders for 30 of them...