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...visible signs, in fact, point to a lessening of tension on the divided peninsula. Incidents along the Demilitarized Zone and elsewhere have fallen off from 761 in 1968 (the year of the U.S.S. Pueblo seizure and the attempt on Park's life by a North Korean death squad) to only 53 so far this year. Representatives of the North and South Korean Red Cross are meeting at Panmunjom in discussions aimed at facilitating direct mail exchanges and family visits across the border...
...port that will provide entry to a vast inland shipping route. By 1980, when dredging work along the Rhone and Rhine rivers is completed, vessels will be able to reach the North Sea from the Mediterranean via Fos, thus avoiding the long trip around the Iberian Peninsula...
...Barents Sea, where the Soviet Union shares a common border with Norway near the roof of the world, the Norwegian defense force of 400 men is frequently witness to a disturbing scene. They watch on radar as the Soviets practice assaults on the coast of their Kola Peninsula, some 300 miles away. In the Soviet war games, the attacking force is always victorious and the defenders are always defeated...
...Washington State went a step further. Two years ago they had had enough of vacationers, who defaced sacred rocks with spray paint and ruined the beauty of their beaches with tons of litter. So they closed the 25-mile stretch of beach and wilderness area on the Olympic Peninsula to all nontribal people...
...quite a coincidence. The way Moscow tells it, the Communist Party boss of every nation in the Soviet bloc -with one notable exception-just happened to be vacationing on Russia's Crimean peninsula last week. Since they were all on hand anyway, even Mongolia's Yumshagin Tsedenbal, why not get together for a little fraternal talk...