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...nearly everything else, however, the countries differ widely, and a "bold new venture" that would rescue one would be just as likely to suffocate another. They differ, for instance, in "absorbtive capacity"; foreign capital can build a dam in the Indus River Basin or at Aswan, but if it tries to build a railroad where no one knows how to--or no one wants to--build railroads, a lot of money will go to waste in abortive projects and in the television sets that grace the living rooms of members of the local congresses. The question of allocation of resources...
...riven by a hideous class warfare between the have-not nations and the haves," or when he states that it is the "balance of hope" rather than the "balance of power that is at stake." One's mind wanders from Black's fascinating negotiations over Suez and the Indus River basin back to the Presidential campaign...
...bitter disputes that came out of the violent partition of India and Pakistan was what to do about the Indus River basin, which sprawled across the borders with no regard to politics. The Indus, whose flow is twice that of the Nile, is Pakistan's lifeline; without it, all Western Pakistan would be a desert. Though only 8% of the basin's area stayed in India, it includes the headwaters of three of the six principal tributary streams. For one brief period in 1948, India, eager to divert the flow into her desert territories, cut off Pakistan...
...Indo-Pakistani water treaty largely engineered by World Bank President Eugene Black. Under the treaty, India will receive the full flow of her three rivers. Pakistan will keep the three others. So that the Pakistani areas downstream of India's rivers will not turn arid, an Indus Basin Development Fund will construct a massive system of connecting canals, bringing water for the northern rivers to fill the empty southern river beds. Six foreign countries (the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia and two newcomers to the foreign aid game-West Germany and New Zealand) will supply $640 million of the fund...
Stroll in the Garden. In Pakistan the Indus agreement and the presence of Nehru renewed hopes that progress might now be made on the bitterest dispute of all: Kashmir, where since 1949 Indian and Pakistan armies have faced each other across a U.N.-drawn crossfire line. The treaty signing over, Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan took his guest to the summer lodge at Murree, overlooking Rudyard Kipling's storied mountain city of Rawalpindi. For two days, as 70-year-old Nehru gradually perked up from the aftereffects of a recent cholera shot and a tooth extraction...