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...been most dramatic in India, where the number of reported cases has soared from an alltime low of 40,000 in 1966 to 1,430,000 in 1972 and 5.8 million last year. One day last week 9,000 new cases were recorded in New Delhi alone. Sri Lanka, Pakistan and African countries south of the Sahara have also reported spectacular rises in the disease. Central America has been extremely hard hit; in Honduras, for example, malaria cases rose from 7,503 in 1974 to 30,289 in 1975 and 48,804 in 1976. El Salvador, poorest and most densely...
Other nations such a Mexico, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, have established nation-wide family planning projects, also with enthusiastic government support. The fact that these programs have had some success gives reason to hope that with enough money and courageous leadership, the Third World may be able to decrease significantly its birth rate...
...such non-oil-producing countries in the developing world as Pakistan, Mali and Sri Lanka, any increase in oil prices presents enormous problems. Most Third World states have managed to pay their oil bills for the past three years only by borrowing an estimated $100 billion from public and private institutions in the U.S. and other industrial countries. At present, the developing countries' total indebtedness stands at a towering $ 170 billion...
...cost of $40 million or so, they decked the streets with the flags of 85 nations, hastily widened roads, improved hotels, organized the tightest security precautions in years and even arranged for a band that could serenade the guests with selections from Oklahoma! And so the government of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) was ready to welcome more than 2,000 elaborately robed and uniformed delegates to the fifth Summit Conference of Nonaligned Countries...
...rhetoric resounded interminably in plenary sessions at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall-a $5 million gift to Sri Lanka from the People's Republic of China-delegates found more agreement in a committee devoted to economic matters. Among their proposals: producer associations to get higher prices for basic commodities, detailed plans for trade expansion with the developed countries and cooperation in the establishment of a Third World currency and a development bank. Said the committee: "The developing countries, and particularly the poorer ones, are in a state of total desperation...