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...Yemen claims all of the Aden Protectorate, whose border is disputed in turn by Saudi Arabia, which has claims on Muscat and Oman as well. Iran claims Bahrein, and Iraq's rulers have always coveted the desert sheikdom of Kuwait, currently the richest country per acre and per capita in the Middle East. But nobody ever took the claim seriously until General Abdul Karim Kassem, "sole leader" of Iraq, announced during the course of a three-hour tirade that he was bent upon "liberating" Ku wait and returning it to the Iraqi "homeland." Upon hearing the news, Britain prudently...
...such influential champions as U.S. Democratic Senators James O. Eastland and Allen Ellender, who once said, "I wish there were a Trujillo in every country of South and Central America." Other apologists, ignoring Trujillo's terror, pointed to the Dominican Republic's sharply improved per-capita yearly income ($225, about average for Latin America). But the average did not reflect the disproportionate share of the wealth acquired by the ubiquitous Trujillo family through The Benefactor's standard 10% cut on all public-works contracts, his heavy interests in sugar, textiles, cattle, insurance, and his monopolies of salt...
...defense, the Councilor pointed out among other things: that the tax base has increased $35 million since 1952; that city employees have had five pay raises, while taxes per capita have diminished; and that U.S. Senator Benjamin Smith only recently congratulated Cambridge on its progress in urban renewal...
...Over the past four years, Haiti's President François Duvalier, a onetime physician, has done little to improve the lot of a country that depends on a $5,000,000 annual U.S. dole to balance its budget and whose ragged peasants still exist on a per capita income of less than $100, lowest in the hemisphere. But he has obviously learned a great deal about how to stay in power from his neighbor, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo...
...retired physician, wily, wiry Sir Milton, 65, has his work cut out for him. For all Sierra Leone's wealth in diamonds, some 85% of the population is illiterate, and per capita income is a meager $56 a year. Eight of ten Sierra Leoneans eke out a living on the land, but the nation must still import foodstuffs. "We will need help to develop our natural resources," says Sir Milton, adding pointedly, "and we would like to look first to our old friends." Firmly pro-Western, Margai has already made Sierra Leone the twelfth member of the Commonwealth. Conspicuously...