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FACT: There are now about 150,000 Cambodians in refugee camps well inside Thailand. An estimated 740,000 Cambodians, mostly civilians, are within a short distance of the border on the Cambodian side; it takes a considerable amount of imagination to speculate that they will all die of starvation or be killed...
...walking tour laid out by Statia's energetic historical foundation. One of the best beaches is on Tumble Down Dick Bay, apparently named after Oliver Cromwell's son and ill-starred successor as Lord Protector of England. The beaches on the brooding, windswept Atlantic side are more for roving than for swimming...
Energy Cooperation. In a most ambitious suggestion, the commission calls for an "accommodation between oil-producing and -consuming countries." Petroleum exporting nations, on their side, would guarantee levels of production and avoid sudden, large price increases. In return, the developed countries would commit themselves to a stiff conservation program and agree to index the price of oil to the real value of a group of strong currencies. The report also urges an all-out program to discover new oil and gas deposits in Third World countries...
Rental housing is becoming scarcer because of demolition, abandonment and especially condomania. In Chicago 60,000 leased apartments have converted to condominiums since 1963, creating a severe housing crunch in parts of the city, notably the fashionable Near North Side. Last year 12,000 New York apartments went cooperative. The trend may accelerate as a result of Citibank's announcement last week that it was making $1 billion in loans available for houses and coops...
...black, solid glass cylinder. Storage is easier because this cylinder occupies only one-sixth the volume of the waste in liquid form. French scientists reckon that if all the nuclear waste that the country generates in the next 20 years were formed into a solid glass cube, each side would measure 53 ft. in length. This glass is expected to resist corrosion and prevent seepage. Creating a waste-treatment industry, France is also reprocessing spent fuel from Japan, West Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Switzerland. The waste is to be returned to the country of origin, probably...