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China's numbers defy the imagination: one-fourth of the world's people inhabit a mere 7% of its land area, a country 76,400 sq. mi. larger than the U.S. Although no accurate census has been taken in 25 years, demographers think that sometime around the middle of 1978 the total population surpassed 1 billion. Approximately 85% of these people live in rural areas. Nonetheless, China still has 13 of the 50 most populous cities in the world. Metropolitan Shanghai, with an estimated 12 million inhabitants, has about half a million more people than Tokyo...
Most of China's varied landscape is inhospitable to human life. The three largest border regions (Sinkiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia) that constitute nearly 40% of China's land mass support only 2% of the population. In the west and northwest are immense stretches of desolation, including the sere, uninhabited stretches of desert and the frozen reaches of Tibet. To the north is the wheat and millet zone, a land of brown, eroded hills, broad turbulent rivers, and tens of thousands of dusty mud-walled villages. Rainfall is so irregular and water so scarce that for thousands...
...reforms it had failed to carry out while in power on the mainland. Today, Taiwan is one of the best-run and least corrupt countries in Asia; per capita income has risen from $280 in 1968 to $1,400 now, more than three times that of China. An effective land-reform program, which eliminated rural destitution and absentee landlords in the 1950s, is he envy of Asia...
...SALT'S major points, of course, had already been negotiated and were contained in a 62-page draft. The main part of the draft is a treaty running to 1985, limiting both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to 2,250 strategic weapons systems: a mix of long-range bombers, land-based inter-continental ballistic missiles and the submarine-launched ballistic missiles. This would be a much more modest achievement than the sharp reductions that the Carter Administration had sought in March 1977. In fact, because the U.S. now deploys about 2,150 strategic systems, the Pentagon actually would be able...
...miles) long and 160 km (100 miles) wide. Its location: somewhere in a broad, globe-girdling belt as far north as Newfoundland and as far south as the tip of South America. About 75% of that area is water, and much of the land is sparsely inhabited. Thus the danger is slight; NASA believes that "the probability of injury or damage is less than that from meteorites." Astronomer Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory concurred, saying that there was really "nothing to worry about...