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THIS ARTICLE DEALS WITH THE U.S. INVASION OF GRENADA, THE RELATIONS WITH THE SOVIET UNION AND REGIONAL POLITICAL MOVEMENTS. INTERRIM REPORTS FROM THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT CLAIMED THAT THE ISLAND (S) WAS "A VICTIM OF SOVIET INTERNATIONALISM." THE AMERICAN INVASION IS DOCUMENTED BY SOME 17 TONS OF DOCUMENTS, MANY OF WHICH REFER TO THE "NEW JEWEL" MOVEMENT SUPPORTED BY THE U.S.S.R. THE QUESTION IS POSED AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THE RUSSIANS WERE USING GRENADA AS A BASE FOR A SOVIET THRUST INTO THE CARIBBEAN. RELATIONSHIPS WITH COMMUNIST PARTIES IN OTHER CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES AND POLITICAL PARTIES ARE ESTABLISHED. THE QUESTION OF AN "ARMS BUILDUP" IS ADDRESSED AND REFUTED IN THE SENSE THAT THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION TOOK THE POSITION THAT THE PRESENCE OF SOVIET ADVISORS AND ARMS FAR EXCEEDED THE NEEDS OF THE ISLAND.

Over 70 % of China's timber product imports are supplied by countries in the Asia Pacific region, and China is the dominant forest product market for many of these countries. Unsustainable harvesting practices, illegal logging, and negative impacts on community livelihoods plague many of these supplying countries. The countries may be divided into those still harvesting and exporting timber from natural forests on a large scale and those which have gone past their highest levels of natural forest timber harvesting and are now more aggressively pursuing plantation development and processing. Apart from Russia, China's top Asia Pacific timber suppliers could at best maintain current supply, with natural forest resources being depleted in less than 20 years. Resource limits also constrain expansion and/or long-term continuation of processed product export to China. Greater attention and action on the part of governments, market leaders, and international organizations is needed to address negative impacts, shifting supply to a sustainable, legal, and equitable basis and to determine from where China's long-term supply will come.