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Focuses on the fears and concerns raised by Eastern Europeans about U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam. Possible impact of the war on traders in Eastern Europe; Views of the Poles on the U.S. bombing of Hanoi at the end of 1966; Concern about U.S. objectives in relation to the war; Bad experiences of East Europeans who tried arranging trade deals with U.S. companies.

Deals with the inability of the Russians to do something with the bombing and political violence created by the U.S. in Vietnam. Proof of the unprecedented drop of Soviet prestige in Eastern Europe; Event of Soviet humiliation that drives home to the East European Communist leaders the apparent helplessness of Russia; Reactions of Communist leaders to the weakness of Russia to cripple the attack of the U.S. on Vietnam.

The partitioning of Czechoslovakia and the subsequent domination of its amputated parts and rump by Nazi Germany would convert France into a second Portugal. Paris would lose its Central and Eastern European allies and the Franco-Soviet pact would be invalidated by the new geography as well as by its worthlessness to Moscow. Germany would then be free to reach down toward the Dardanelles or to face France without the Kaisers disadvantage of having to fight on two fronts. France's weakening means the weakening of the Anglo-French combination.

The article focuses on the success of the Sputnik satellite by Russian researchers. It says that the Russians are the only one capable to give detailed data of the satellite. It states that the Sputnik is predicted by U.S. satellite program chief John P. Hagen to stay at the orbit for more than a year. It adds that the Project Sputnik was headed by Leonid I. Sedov along with two Russian women scientists namely Astronomer Alia Masevich and Cosmic Ray Expert Lydia Kurnasova.

The article reports that East European Communist builders are earning deutsche marks from construction projects in West Germany. Among these projects are apartments being built by Rumanian state-owned builder Arcoconstruct in Goeppinger and West Berlin. As Rumanians and Yugoslavians complete projects in West Germany, the Czech and Hungarian builders are also looking for contracts to take advantage of the labor shortage in West Germany.

The article discusses the protest launched by U.S. Senate liberals against the Senate's decision to retain its immigration policies based on the principle of national origins. It says that the principle heavily favors North Europeans against the entry of South and East Europeans. The protestors demand major changes to the immigration policies including the transfer of unused quotas to countries that have exhausted their quotas, making provisions that will allow entry to naturalized Orientals living in Western nations and a revamp of deportation rules.

Focuses on circumstances that led to an opportunity of cold war. Information that graduates of the Polish fighting against both Nazis and Russians in 1939, of Russian concentration camps in 1940-41; Forecast of future of a free Poland as part of an East European federation; View that revisionist writings not merely of exiles but of the alienated writers within the Communist nations themselves; Penetration of the Russian intellectual elite; Fact that funds come from sales in the Free World and contributions by individual East European exiles.