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...After reading TIME'S article on world inflation, I would add that a thorough program of worldwide birth control should be employed if new agricultural areas (i.e., the Amazon and Congo basins) are to be developed by technologically advanced methods...
...radically changing its common agricultural policy, which now subsidizes a vast patchwork of small, high-cost farms and inhibits the development of large-scale, efficient agriculture. Beyond that, major agricultural nations, led by the U.S., should join to help such places as Kenya and the basins of the Amazon and Congo rivers achieve their vast food-growing potential. The technology...
...more of an exploration than a production upswing. Spurred on by voracious demand and fat prices, such oil giants as Exxon, Mobil and Texaco, along with a host of smaller firms, are scouring the earth from Malaysia to Newfoundland for fresh finds. Next month, activity in Peru's Amazon River jungle will reach boom tempo as Union Oil, Tenneco, Getty, Sun Oil, Transworld and other companies begin drilling for what many geologists believe is the world's largest unexplored oil deposit. The most promising recent strikes have been under the turbulent waters of the North Sea, which...
Along the way, he manages to dally with two Cossack women and one semi-Chinese Amazon known as the Silk One. He picks up fluent Russian and pushes into Pushtu and Persian. As usual, his feats are preposterous and irresistible-if they happen to strike the reader in the right mood. Well and good, but Fraser had better not rest on his laurels. American Flashmaniacs can hardly be expected to wait much longer for him to come across with the great man's oft-hinted-at memories of cutthroat days at Little Big Horn and gunfights with Kit Carson...
Inspiring him was the spectacle of the Amazon villagers themselves -some 275,000 of them in a Montana-sized stretch of the river basin roughly 600 miles in from the Atlantic coast...