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Iran's economy is growing at the rate of 12% a year, and the per-capita income of its 26 million people has nearly doubled-from $130 to $250-in the past ten years. The country, which once depended on U.S. aid ($1.7 billion since World War II) for its very survival, now stands proudly on its own feet, a good example of what an underdeveloped land can do with determination and some good sense. Gone are the swarms of U.S. advisers, administrators and technical experts who once inhabited every government ministry and hovered over every government project. Their...
...Bourguiba's admiring silent partner, the U.S. gives more per capita assistance to Tunisia (pop. 4,460,000) than to any other African state. This fiscal year American aid will reach $62 million-mostly in Food for Peace. Though politically pro-West, Bourguiba also welcomes Communist aid: the Russians are building Tunisia's first institute of technology, and the Bulgarians financed a gleaming new 70,000-seat sport stadium outside Tunis. Bourguiba has not been so lucky with all Communists. After he allowed four Chinese sports instructors in to teach young Tunisians pingpong, he discovered that they...
Before he could come close to his goal, some 10,000 Communist terrorists had to be subdued in a bitter guerrilla war that had begun nine years before the British moved out. But since then, the country has made solid economic progress. Per capita income has grown 4% annually, until today it stands at $313 -one of Asia's highest. Every year 18% of the national product has been plowed back into investments, much of it in the villages in an impressive rural-development program headed by the Tunku's friend, Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak...
...fact, the American appetite for statistics seems insatiable, and the statisticians obligingly crank out an unending supply, ranging from the annual per-capita consumption of paper (540 Ibs.) to the number of dishes (nine) that the typical family breaks in the course of a year. Sports fans are longtime lovers of the well-tempered statistic. To know that Roger Maris replaced Babe Ruth as the home-run king through a fluke in total games played, is to be an aficionado instead of an amateur. For the average American, to be told that a lofting astronaut has threaded a celestial needle...
...another 15,000,000 or so to be consumed at home or added to the warehouses. What makes the gap more disturbing is that some coffee-drinking nations are not even drinking as much as they used to. In the U.S., which takes 50% of the global output, per capita daily consumption has fallen from 3.12 cups to 2.86 cups in four years, apparently because younger Americans tend to prefer soft drinks. Thus last week, Joao Oliveira Santos, executive director of the International Coffee Organization, reminded delegates that coffee production, increasing at the rate of 5% annually, is now double...