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...success has brought problems that Puerto Ricans never thought would worry them. Emigration to the main land, their traditional answer to chronic overpopulation, has slowed as jobs have become more plentiful at home. Vigorous opposition from the Roman Catho ic Church has all but wrecked any ef ective government birth control program. Population is now increasing at an average 2.3% a year (v. 1.5% in the 50 states), and at this rate - with no marked rise in emigration - will nearly double in the next 30 years. Today the island occupies a unique but not entirely comfortable economic status...
This is the nation whose intentions are a main topic of speculation in the West, and were frequently invoked at last week's hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (see THE NATION). About to set off its third nuclear blast, supported by a huge army that could bring full-scale war to Southeast Asia if it marched south, Red China is certainly what Defense Secretary Robert McNamara recently called it: "a threat of greatest concern to the U.S." The threat is the more bother some because China's very frustrations make its reactions so odd and unpredictable...
...Fifth Republic. The man he chose to carry out the change is a proven expert in bending over backward: Finance and Economics Minister Michel Debré, 54. Before he became De Gaulle's first Premier in 1959, Debré had been totally committed to keeping Algeria French; his main task turned out to be implementing De Gaulle's policy for Algerian independence. De Gaulle rewarded Debré in the arbitrary manner of princes, dumping him in 1962 for suave, casual Banker-about-Town Georges Pompidou. "To be, to have been," said Debré in farewell, "the first collaborator...
...weeks of 20-hour-a-day effort centered in a 20-room section of Emory's Wesley Hall dormitory. The brashness of Bubba Sutton, 24-year-old son of a Marietta, Ga., building contractor and former student on the world-circling University of the Seven Seas, provided the main push. He flew to New York to gain the backing of General Lucius Clay, to Los Angeles to get Bob Hope to make part of a television special explaining A.V.N. to Georgia viewers, to Miami to get Singer Anita Bryant out of bed and persuade her to take part...
...posed by Hitler was banished to the history books, but Niebuhr's Christianity and Crisis found enough troubling issues to keep right on publishing. This week the magazine celebrates its 25th anniversary by sponsoring a colloquium on mankind's present crisis and a banquet at which the main speaker will be Longtime Reader Hubert Humphrey...