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Pakistan is getting coal only by paying three times the market rate. At that, its railroads have only enough for 20 days' restricted operation. They are now carrying no freight-only refugees. Indian warehouses are glutted with textiles intended for Pakistan, which cannot make its own and now cannot pay for shipments from India...
...estimates of infected cattle ran between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 of Mexico's 13 million. Up to last week, approximately half a million diseased cattle had been shot and buried in lime pits, and thousands of exposed but uninfected animals had been sent to market. The anti-aftosa campaign, in which the U.S. alone has spent about $35 million, has enlisted 500 U.S. and 500 Mexican technicians, 2,000 civilian workers. More than 15,000 Mexican troops have assisted. From the U.S. has come about $3,000,000 worth of equipment-bulldozers for digging mass graves...
Last week, the U.S. and Mexican Governments heeded the campesino's wails. Henceforth only infected animals would be killed. Exposed animals would not have to be sent to market. To curb the disease's spread, the campaigners would rely on strict quarantine and vaccination. Said U.S. Agriculture Under-Secretary Norris Dodd: "Maybe we've been going too fast. Mexico says the impact on her economy is too great...
...black-market money exchanges in Rome's Piazza Colonna, the news came as a profound shock. But to Italian exporters, U.S. importers and world traders everywhere, the news was the best out of Italy in months. Last week, the Italian government abandoned the fictitious value it had set on the lira. It devalued the lira from 350 to the U.S. dollar to what it considered its true worth-the last month's average black-market price of 589 to the dollar...
...this financial stroke, Italy hoped to 1) wipe out the domestic black market in lira, and 2) add to its store of dollars by encouraging U.S. remittances, the tourist trade and export trade to the U.S. The chances seemed excellent that Italy would accomplish both...