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...PARAGUAY. After eleven years under Dictator-President Alfredo Stroessner, the country's 1,900,000 people do not have democracy in the U.S. sense, or much hope of achieving it in the near future. But the regime is growing more benign, and Paraguayans are beginning to know a little prosperity. Attracted by rocklike stability (the guarani at 126 to the dollar has not budged in five years), foreign investment has increased steadily. U.S. firms have spent more than $25 million to build meat-packing plants, a bottled-gas facility, a hydroelectric station and an oil refinery. Last year, exports...
...benign nuclear war is being fought in Europe - a battle over the $500 million-a-year market for power reactors.Western Europe has already outdistanced the U.S. in the number of nuclear power installations (29 v. 12), but that is just the beginning. Europe has decided for the future to invest more in nuclear power than in any other means of producing electricity, is on the threshold of making major purchases of equipment. Such U.S. giants as General Electric and Westinghouse, which won an early beachhead for their reactors, are now being strongly challenged by big equipment makers in Britain, Germany...
...white-owned farmlands merely to assuage African resentments (and perhaps to undercut Communist pressures from within the government). But even at that, Tanzania's Agriculture Minister is a moderate ex-colonial, Derek Bryceson, who was overwhelmingly re-elected last month as a Government Party stalwart. Salaam is as benign and friendly a city as a European could hope to visit...
...naive to soft-pedal the population explosion as "more myth than menace." "A modest growth of 18% per decade, one-half what it was 100 years ago," is not so benign. Eighteen percent of present population is 34.7 million; 36% of 1865 population is only 12.6 million...
...Communist bank is directed by Chairman Nan Han-chen, 73, a deceptively benign looking finance specialist who took part in the abortive 1936 kidnaping of Chiang Kai-shek by Shensi-province Reds. Taiwan's bank is headed by ascetic Yu Kuo-hwa, 51, a veteran follower of Chiang who studied at Harvard and the London School of Economics. Taiwan's branches abroad are becoming the bank's vital arm. Last year the Nationalist bank reported earnings of $3,200,000, its biggest profit-and $2,300,000 of that came from overseas operations...