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...months, Britons on the lam have found complete sanctuary in Ireland−only a three-hour ferry ride away. Because of a yawning legal loophole discovered in 1964, Ireland has become a home away from home for at least three of the Great Train Robbers and more than 100 other British fugitives. Conversely, platoons of Irish crooks have been flitting safely to Britain−all because the two countries wrongly thought that no extradition treaty was needed between them...
...laying of Red minefields. Local chiefs also aid Clement's men in the tough task of distinguishing Viet Cong from peaceful Vietnamese, accompanying the marines on sweeps and pointing out known Reds. Marines were waiting when two companies of Communists mounted a counterattack last June. After a three-hour fight, the Reds withdrew, leaving eight dead. Clement's men have also adapted to the technique of ambush; when his squads go off on patrol, a few men often peel off to remain as long as three days staked out on bug-ridden back-country trails. So far, they...
From Canton, Malraux went on to Peking and spent four days browsing in antique shops and visiting the Imperial Palace and the Temple of Heaven. There was also a three-hour chat with China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi; Malraux blandly called it a tour d'horizon that included cultural relations between the two countries. Next, the visitor was off to see the Lung-men Grottoes near Loyang, the archaeological finds at Sian, and finally, the cave-riddled mountains of Yenan where Mao Tse-tung set up his headquarters after the 6,000-mile Long March...
After the banquet came a three-hour visit with Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung and President Liu Shao-chi. Malraux suddenly produced a letter for Mao from Charles de Gaulle. In Paris no one would say whether the letter was in Malraux's pocket when he left, or had reached him in Peking after he had advised the French embassy that things were going well...
...more legal holidays (14 in Sweden) than in the U.S. They also cling to their own ways, no matter what the efficiency experts say: Germans like their bottle of beer on the job, the French must have their daily liter of wine, and the Spaniards insist on a three-hour siesta at midday. A U.S.-owned factory in Amsterdam barely averted a walkout over how the cafeteria food should be seasoned, and an exasperated U.S. executive in France found that, after one worker complained of a draft, he had to discuss for hours what doors of a warehouse should...