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TIME'S article "Socialism: Trials and Errors" [March 13] presents an excellent defense for our present socioeconomic system against socialism. No nation, however, has adopted socialism as a result of victories in debates on the subject. Throughout history, the basic human rights have been the opportunity to obtain "food, shelter and clothing." When the existing system in a nation becomes unable to sustain those rights adequately for the majority of the people, history shows, some form of socialism inevitably has followed...
After leaving on Tuesday, Carter was to stop first in Caracas. He will hold at least two private meetings with President Carlos Andrés Pérez. Topics are expected to include the Panama Canal treaties; human rights (Venezuela has one of the best Latin American records in that field); and undoubtedly, since that country is a member of OPEC...
...Venezuela are generally good, but Carter could have a trickier time of it in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil's military government was angered when the U.S. unsuccessfully tried to block the sale of West German nuclear reactors to Brazil. Nor does Brazil like Carter's position on human rights, which is considerably at variance with the generals' view of how to run things...
...people on Bikini had shown any adverse effects from radiation during periodic health checks. But officials found that levels of strontium and cesium, as well as of plutonium, were rising alarmingly among the returned islanders, and they now believe that Bikini probably will not be safe for long-term human occupation for another 35 to 50 years. "It is now clear," as the department put it, "that for the foreseeable future the island of Bikini should not be used for agricultural purposes and should not be considered a residential area." Those islanders who have been repatriated will have...
...decision is made on a new home for the Bikinians, the department will conduct its long-promised aerial radiation survey of all the areas in the Marshall Islands where nuclear devices were exploded, in order to determine which of the now peaceful islands are once again fit-truly-for human inhabitants...