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Tortured Prisoners. The foundations of apartheid are still too solidly entrenched to be done away with for a long time to come-if ever. The prison population is still the world's highest per capita, with 424,000 blacks behind bars, half of them for petty infractions of the pass laws. The jails also hold 800 persons who are officially classified as political prisoners. According to one recent account, the government still has 42 persons under house arrest and out of circulation, including a grandson of Gandhi (no newspaper can mention their names). In Pretoria, the terrorism trial...
...Netherlands' Gerrit Wagner reminded the discussion group: "In terms of income per capita, Japan is No. 20 on the world list." He added: "In the trade field, there could be one American solution in Europe and quite another in Japan...
...poverty might set the stage for a "Red revolution," set about accomplishing a "white revolution from the throne." His peaceful upheaval has been amazingly successful. Since 1962 Iran's gross national product has advanced at an average 9.2% per year, to $10 billion in 1970. Per capita income has nearly doubled, from $180 a year...
...enrollment will put additional strains on the aching Harvard budget. New students will require new housing, additional facilities and an expanded teaching staff. Yet Bok's primary argument for his plan is a financial one. Harvard alumni donate four times as much money as Radcliffe alumnae on a per capita basis, he wrote. If the Harvard class is cut, where will Harvard get the money to survive...
These statistics are particularly telling when inequality is examined along regional lines. Average per capita income in East Pakistan (the more populous of the two regions) was 85 per cent of Western income in 1951-52. By 1967-68, that figure had dropped sharply to 62 per cent. An explanation for these seemingly contradictory statistics--a rise in GNP unaccompanied by any reduction of misery for the vast majority of the Pakistani people--can be found in an examination of the development strategy used in Pakistan...