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...more concerned with Northeast Asia-Korea and Japan -than with Indochina. The Viet Nam earthquake may yet shake loose the fragile peace on the Korean peninsula. Fired by the Communist victory in Indochina, North Korea's President Kim II Sung seemed to some observers to be on the verge of invading South Korea last spring; he even went to Peking to seek Chinese support but came back chastened. China, he learned, wanted the Korean situation to remain peaceful for the time being, with an American garrison of 42,000 men as a counterweight to the Soviet presence in Siberia...
...Tokyo might well be forced to rearm in a massive way, probably with atomic weapons. Many Japanese officials are as afraid as Kissinger is of the prospect of a remilitarized Japan. They have urged him to make direct approaches to North Korea, if necessary, to guarantee peace on the peninsula...
...seems incredible," says Fodor's Guide to the Sinai Peninsula, "but there has been a constant flow of traffic across this corner of hell since time immemorial." Last week the U.S. Congress passed a joint resolution that will allow some 200 American technicians to become the latest pilgrims to the Sinai. The U.S. technicians will act as "custodians" at two multimillion-dollar surveillance sites along the Giddi Pass. They will also man two or three new watch stations in the area. Their life will not be easy, as TIME'S Jerusalem bureau chief Donald Neff discovered when...
Late last spring, a man named Cristo--the one who stretched an orange curtain across a canyon (pictured in Life) and wrapped up the Contemporary Art Museum in Chicago like a birthday present--revealed plans to stretch a long wall-like fence across the Marin Country peninsula, north of San Francisco. He ran into a lot of problems in his attempted ramble from Susuin Bay to the Ocean--not the least of which was that his route included a national seashore. The project fizzled, and all that remains are his plans. These are being presented, until October...
...influence upon sinners as an earthquake." The ancient Japanese believed that the hundreds of quakes that shook (and still shake) their islands every year were caused by the casual movements of a great spider that carried the earth on its back. Natives of Siberia's quake-prone Kamchatka Peninsula blamed the tremors on a giant dog named Kosei tossing snow off his fur. Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher and mathematician, believed that earthquakes were caused by the dead fighting among themselves. Another ancient Greek, Aristotle, had a more scientific explanation. He contended that the earth's rumblings were...