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...fastest growing population? Not India and not Communist China. The population explosion is strongest in tropical South America-a 5,300,000-sq.-mi. area encompassing Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, and the three Guianas, British, Dutch and French (see map). According to the Population Reference Bureau, an independent, nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., these nine countries are growing at an average rate of 3.2% each year, compared with about 2% for India and Red China. At cur rent rates, their 121 million population will double by 1986; in 100 years something like 3.8 billion people will...
...under 15 years of age, children who must be educated and trained for jobs, which must then be found for them. In Brazil, despite all efforts to build more schools, only half the children are getting a grade school education, only 6% high school training. Concludes the Population Reference Bureau: "Until a new 'vital balance' is achieved-a low birth rate balancing a low death rate-economic progress and better living conditions for each citizen will be very difficult to attain, if not impossible...
Major Government and business forecasts of the nation's year-to-year growth have been wrong by 30% to 40% since 1947. Reason: shaky projections based on shoddy statistics. This disconcerting report came last week from the privately financed National Bureau of Economic Research, and it further darkened the shadow of doubt that hovers over many of the indicators used by businessmen to reach their decisions to spend, lend or cut back...
Despite these roadblocks in the path to a meaningful relationship, the Message has been handling nearly 200 communications a day. In addition, Mrs. Kaufman said, students seem to view the office as a combination information service, date bureau, and police station...
With McCulloch's firsthand reporting, supported by backgrounding from the rest of the Hong Kong staff and the Washington bureau, the cover story written by Robert Jones and edited by Henry Grunwald throws the sharpest light yet on the plight and possibilities of Laos and the U.S. in the jungle of neutralism...