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...success has brought problems that Puerto Ricans never thought would worry them. Emigration to the main land, their traditional answer to chronic overpopulation, has slowed as jobs have become more plentiful at home. Vigorous opposition from the Roman Catho ic Church has all but wrecked any ef ective government birth control program. Population is now increasing at an average 2.3% a year (v. 1.5% in the 50 states), and at this rate - with no marked rise in emigration - will nearly double in the next 30 years. Today the island occupies a unique but not entirely comfortable economic status...
...Administration had been promising for months that this year would at last bring an end to the nation's chronic balance-of-payments deficit. Last week that prospect virtually vanished-a victim of the rising cost of the Viet Nam war and, strange as it seems, surging prosperity at home...
...prairie states, or even in a city like Los Angeles where the limitations of nature have been brushed aside. These shortages are expected. The present problem concerns the Northeast, where water was apparently as abundant as the concentrated masses who live there. Now, after four seasons of chronic drought, New Yorkers, and to some extent New Englanders, have become as water-conscious as Arizonians. That such a situation should have arisen is, of course, alarming; that such a situation should continue in the future shows a lack of public concern...
...Durham Lawyers Anthony Brannon and J. Milton Read Jr., it seemed harsh and unfair to treat a chronic drunk as a common criminal. They had read that Washington Attorney Peter Hutt had defended a District of Columbia drunk with the argument that alcoholism is a disease, not a crime (TIME, Nov. 27), and they decided to do the same for Driver. They took their case to the federal courts, and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a decision that promises to echo across the U.S., upheld their argument. "The alcoholic's presence in public...
Fiscal Flaws. Actually, foreign affairs are only one reason for the chronic imprecision of U.S. budgets. Last week the Committee for Economic Development, a prestigious private research group, touched on some of the other causes. Among "serious inadequacies" in the budgetary process, said C.E.D., is insufficient programming by Government departments, despite Johnson's orders last August to all federal organizations to set up Pentagon-style computerized cost-analysis systems. The C.E.D. also faulted Congress, pointing out that it rarely debates overall policy questions implicit in the budget, such as a "rational balance" between space exploration and urban renewal, which...