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...vast array of imports that choke its harbors and shine alluringly on store shelves. Exports total barely $15 million, while imports exceed $850 million. The only thing that closes this incredible trade gap is the massive infusion of U.S. dollars. This year the South Vietnamese economy will absorb some $400 million in direct foreign aid from the U.S., another $400 million in Defense Department spending for local goods and services, and about $80 million in private spending by U.S. personnel and firms. The total is equivalent to about one-fourth of South Viet Nam's gross national product...
...with the workers from each particular location the audiences and active participants.) In this way. Cuba is avoiding the ??emend??s hardships and dislocations caused in non-socialist Third World nations by the steady exodus of former peasants and agricultural families into urban areas, economically and culturally unable to absorb them, thus leaving the rural expanses with a severe shortage of labor which lowers food production and increases the hunger of the population...
...When other potential sugar-beet processors became unavailable for the project, Muskie helped bring in Vahlsing, who already operated a potato-processing plant in Easton, Me., to build a sugar refinery there. Now Muskie, who opened doors in Washington for Vahlsing and helped him obtain financing, must absorb some of the blame for the mess...
Where do most of the pollutants end up? Probably in the oceans, which cover 70% of the globe. Yet even the oceans can absorb only so much filth; many ecologists are worried about the effects on phytoplankton. If the supertanker Torrey Canyon had leaked herbicides rather than oil, the spillage would have wiped out all plankton life in the North Sea. Other ecologists fear that the oceans will become so burdened with noxious wastes that they will lose their vast power...
...Maggie Helmer as Grusha, the peasant girl. She floods the room with her subdued, determined strength, which generates into snarling anger when the provocation's mount up on her. She is charmingly ingenuous in one situation and rages like a mountain cat in the next. Her timing and spontaneity absorb us until we react in perfect parallel with her in each successive confrontation. She is the most sympathetic character I can recall...