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...contrast, the more populous East Pakistan, with 72 million people, remains one of the world's most densely populated regions (1,400 per sq. mi.), one of the poorest ($50 per capita income a year), and one of the most disaster-prone (last year's Ganges Delta cyclone killed as many as 500,000 East Pakistanis...
Profitable Delay. Lockheed's customers and creditors are anxious to save the company because they have so much money tied up in the TriStar. Eastern Air Lines, TWA and Delta have advanced more than $200 million in down payments for the plane. The airlines were supposed to begin flying the TriStars this November, but their executives will be happy to wait. Burdened with overcapacity now, they figure that they will be able to report higher profits this year if they do not have to pay for an expensive new jet. If it accepts the British terms, Lockheed will probably...
...spate of more than 50 tornadoes churned furiously through portions of Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee, uprooting and smashing everything in their path, leaving behind more than 100 dead, thousands homeless and property damage in the tens of millions of dollars. One of the hardest hit was the Mississippi Delta town of Inverness (pop. 1,119), which suffered 90% destruction in its business area, the loss of nearly three-fourths of its residential dwellings and 18 deaths. TIME Correspondent Rich Rein toured stricken Inverness. Here is his report...
...trees are dead and the presence of crabs which eat seedlings insures that new trees will not soon return. Moreover, the major mangrove spraying was done five and six years ago-a major typhoon is likely soon which will probably greatly increase erosion and physically change the coastline and delta regions...
Strip spraying is the name given to herbicide use in a variety of situations. Narrow strips along roadsides, along the perimeters of military installations, along canals and along rivers have been sprayed to reduce cover which might hide troop movements. In the Delta region of the south, most of the population lives in homes along the canal banks, with their rice fields extending away from the canals, behind their homes. American strip spraying dumped herbicides directly on these huts (and their inhabitants) while killing vegetation along the banks of the canals...