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...months after he took over as President last December, Jorge Pacheco Areco started remarking, only half-jokingly, that Uruguay's problems were such that he needed "a little help from heaven" to solve them. Someone up there must like him. Last week torrential rains ended a six-month drought that had ravaged Uruguay's cattle and sheep, a chief source of income, and badly damaged the economy. Rebellious students who had seized the University of Montevideo and held it for four days finally agreed to leave peacefully. And Uruguay's third general strike in a month ended...
Balaguer is even planning a tourist industry along a 25-mile strip of powdery white beach on the eastern end of the island. Appalling poverty and misery still remain, of course; fetid new slums have sprung up north of Santo Domingo, and a yearlong drought in the parched, scabrous southern peninsula has decimated cattle herds...
...Russia, and a fishery development. Most of them planned for completion after 1970, these projects should provide a big boost for Pakistan's next five-year plan, which begins that year. The present one, even though slowed down by the war with India and a two-year drought, is producing very close to the target of a 6.5%-per-year growth in the overall economy. Agriculture is even overperforming: Ayub's dream of having Pakistan become a self-sufficient grain producer should be realized next year, a year ahead of schedule...
...years ago. The headline-grabbing sports, football and hockey, have multi-flexed their way into mediocrity the past two years, and every indication points to them staying there for at least a while. Squash hasn't won a national championship in two years, which is like a ten-year drought for anyone else, swimming and baseball are only now beginning their ascent to the top after a couple of off-seasons, while soccer, basketball and lacrosse, none too hot to begin with, are at least breathing some signs of life these days. Indeed, as far as championships are concerned, Harvard...
Much of the land is mountainous and semi-arid. There was a drought in the north last fall, and there will be a famine this spring. CARE is presently mobilizing to send emergency health teams with food supplies to the area, but several thousand people will probably die of starvation...