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Thanks to tireless and often unappreciated effort, refugee camp conditions are much improved, but refugees still live as political hostages in an atmosphere of hatred. Egypt's President Nasser still says, "The sole way of settling the refugee problem is by restoring the land, which was stolen, to its owners," but he hardly expects any more to conquer Israel. U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, avoiding the inflamed question of repatriation altogether, suggests that to get the refugees off the dole, UNRWA's vocational training program should be greatly expanded. Then if UNRWA disappears, a new agency, possibly with...
Union of South Africa's 9,600,000 blacks will get what, before later additions, amounts to only 13% of the land, and far from the best land at that. And for all the glowing promises about a gradual "creative withdrawal" of white leadership, the promised Bantu rights are largely illusory in their own reserves, and nonexistent outside of them in the places where Bantus continue to work...
...More land is irrigated by the Indus waters than by any other river system in the world. Fed by Himalayan snows and torrential monsoon rains, the canals make fertile some 21 million acres in Pakistan and 5,000,000 in India, and could be expanded to cover 22 million acres more. The system irrigates three times the area served by the bountiful Nile, supports a population equal to Italy's 50 million...
Though it has never been enforced, Article 90 of Cuba's constitution says that "large landholdings are proscribed," and "the acquisition and possession of land by foreign persons and companies shall be restrictively limited." Last week Prime Minister Fidel Castro enforced Article 90 with a vengeance. His agrarian-reform decree, signed in the six-hut eastern village of La Plata, scene of one of the first guerrilla attacks in Castro's revolution, outlawed the $300 million U.S. investment in Cuban sugar...
Sugar-company lawyers puzzled over the law's 66 sections all week, but the key language was unequivocal and plunged Cuba down a land-reform road where many Latin American hopes have been dashed (see box). No corporation can own land in Cuba unless all stockholders are Cuban; no foreigner may buy or inherit land. If U.S. sugar companies do not sell out within a year, their land will be expropriated and paid off in 20-year government bonds bearing 4.5% interest. According to Castro's estimate, made on a television show, the bond payments would range from...