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...third Five-Year Plan, scheduled for parliamentary debate (and virtually sure approval) next week, aims as high as the first two put together -spending $24,360,000,000 to increase industrial output 70%, farm production 25%, national income 34%, life expectancy by another four years, and daily per capita caloric intake from...
...many gains while it grows. Plan III provides $105 million for birth-control programs (including mobile sterilization units), but the $1,550,000,000 budgeted for "general health improvement" may frustrate the family planners by further lowering the death rate. At best, five years from now the annual per capita income of India's millions will be only $81, and their food intake 17.5 oz. per person per day. There will be 17 million new workers coming of age in the next five years, and jobs for all but 500.000 of them, who will join the 9.000.000 now unemployed...
...security of the state-otherwise known as political prisoners-who are sentenced, tried and detained, number only 683." About 90% of these prisoners "are held for Communist-type activities," he added, "and the other 10% are fellow travelers." Except for The Netherlands, boasted Herreros, Spain has the lowest per capita number of prisoners of any nation in the Western world: only 50.44 per 100,000 population, against (as he was quick to point out) the U.S. rate...
...Alliance for Progress, the most vital aid program in the history of the hemisphere. At the start of the conference this week, Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, leading the U.S. delegation, will propose a generous, but often stern, program. Even the minimums are staggering. To help raise the per capita income in each country by 2.5% a year, the U.S. intends to pour $1.3 billion a year into Latin America...
...Dominican Republic) that are scheduled to participate in the alliance. That aid is needed, all are agreed. The question is how much. Many Latin Americans fear that even the generous U.S. commitment will not be enough to achieve its high goals, particularly the aim to raise the per capita income by 2.5% a year. Such a feat, they say, could only be accomplished by pouring in $3 billion-perhaps $6 billion -worth of U.S. aid each year...