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Hiding the Hippies. The wedding bill came to $9.5 million-no mean effort for a country whose 10 million people get by on a yearly per capita income of $77. In Katmandu, roads were widened and repaved, street lamps were installed, and Nepalese workmen painted over everything in sight, including the bronze statues of the Rana prime ministers. A new $2 million royal palace was rushed to completion to dazzle an anticipated crush of 3,000 foreign guests. The Nepalese cleared out the shaggiest of the Western hippies, who come to Katmandu to get high on the altitude and cheap...
...year, Japan's per capita income still ranks only 19th, just ahead of Italy's and far behind the U.S.'s $4,600. But that gap is closing fast as Japanese workers begin to make up for past sacrifices with fat pay increases. "It would not be surprising," says the Hudson Institute's Herman Kahn, "if the 21st century turned out to be the Japanese century...
...when France withdrew from Algeria, units of the legion's crack 1st Infantry and 2nd Parachute regiments have been in Chad since last April. The huge, landlocked former French colony is one of the world's poorest countries, with 3,500,000 people and a yearly per-capita income of $40. For more than five years, northern Arabs have been ravaging cotton fields and raiding government offices in the south in an effort to topple the corrupt but pro-French regime in Fort-Lamy. Paris is so disturbed by the rebel threat that, as part of its recent...
What Costa Rica does have, however, is the highest literacy rate (85%) and the second highest per capita annual income in Central America ($450 v. an average $300). It also has an enviable record-not quite unbroken but still impressive-of free and democratic elections. Last week, for the fourth time in a row, the Costa Rican electorate peacefully voted out the party in power. As usual, the 2,000-man police force stayed quietly in the background; the most noteworthy figures at polling places belonged to pretty girls in miniskirts who were on hand to assist voters...
...Considering Indira Gandhi's silence on India's most pressing economic problem, the inexorable population growth rate of 15 million a year which keeps the annual per capita income at about $70 [Jan. 19], I am moved to ask if man's urge to breed is greater than his will to live. Are we going to allow the population bomb to destroy our rather pleasant planet? India is not the only place where the ticking can be heard...