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...signing of an Indo-Pakistani water treaty largely engineered by World Bank President Eugene Black. Under the treaty, India will receive the full flow of her three rivers. Pakistan will keep the three others. So that the Pakistani areas downstream of India's rivers will not turn arid, an Indus Basin Development Fund will construct a massive system of connecting canals, bringing water for the northern rivers to fill the empty southern river beds. Six foreign countries (the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia and two newcomers to the foreign aid game-West Germany and New Zealand) will supply $640 million...
...efficiency during the war. To feed the growing mass of humans at a level above subsistence, more than 70 square miles of land should be turned over to agriculture every day. But one-fifth of the earth's surface is too cold to produce crops, one-fifth too arid, one-fifth too mountainous, and one-tenth is bare rock. In Cardiff, Wales last week, at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, some 2,000 of the world's leading experts confronted these facts with a surprising optimism. One major fact: world food...
...project started eight years ago, the cost of converting sea water has dropped steeply from around $5.00 per 1,000 gallons to about $1.75. Says Dr. A. L. Miller, director of the office of saline water: "For the future, conversion of salt water may be more important to the arid areas of the world than getting a man to the moon...
...prodded his fellow Red lettermen: "The heroes of our fiction are drab and colorless creatures of abstraction. Many of our artists still lack the courage to write about the contradictions in our social life. They turn our rich experience into one-sided affairs, molded to fit an arid formula...
Last week, when the writers gathered again, Mao Tun was preaching the unabashed arid formula: "Praise the general line, the people's communes and the tremendous forward leaps," he urged his colleagues. "Unmask U.S. imperialism, which is feigning peace while intensifying war preparations." Production has been good, he said-almost twice as many works had been published in China in the past four years as in the previous six, including such lyric flights...