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The startling success that Communist China has had in its campaign to increase trade with the West may boomerang as a result of the crop failure on the Chinese mainland. In recent years. Communist China has paid for 75 per cent of its imports by agricultural exports…. The Peiping government is gravely concerned over the mass migration of peasants to the cites. “Labor reform centers” are being readied to receive “unemployed reactionaries, vagabonds” and other “nonproductive” city residents. According to a government survey, 60 per cent of the residents in fifteen major cities are ‘‘nonproductive.”

Soviet patrols have seized 56 Japanese fishing boats with 572 crewmen from January to June of this year. Of these, 25 boats and 36 men are still missing.

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