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...President only last month asked Congress in his urban message for 6,000,000 units for low-and moderate-income families within ten years, a program that Congress is not likely to pass without major surgery. But the commission nonetheless recommended that the building time be speeded up. Six million units should be built in five years, 600,000 of them in the next year...
...output, has already reduced the number of party members in the 600-person Warsaw branch of the Writers' Union to 10%, and a current revival of official anti-Semitism will probably reduce it even further. Nor are the intellectuals alone in their restlessness; among Poland's 32 million citizens, too, there is a growing boredom, if not dissatisfaction, with the regime. With only 1,860,000 members, Poland's Communist Party is now proportionately one of the smallest ruling Communist parties in the world. Naturally, the party's malaise tends to become the butt...
...countryside, agricultural production has jumped 50%, making the country the world's third largest producer of coffee, fourth largest of cocoa and fifth largest of pineapple. At the same time, the rate of new local and foreign business investment (Renault, Esso, Unilever) has more than doubled to $100 million yearly. Last week businessmen and government officials from a dozen African countries rounded off a ten-day technical exposition sponsored by France, which picked the sophisticated capital of Abidjan for its first such show in Black Africa...
...capital's biggest single project yet, part of Houphouët's plan to make Abidjan and the surrounding countryside the latest In place for the international set. Designed by Los Angeles Architect William Pereira (TIME cover, Sept. 6, 1963), it is a 10,000-acre, $300 million resort complex that will have 15 hotels, a 27-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones, four shopping centers, a silk-stocking residential area for 120,000 people and a zoological garden designed not only for tourists but for Ivory Coasters, who often...
Training & Loans. Houphouët's biggest problems are 1) a need for bright, well-trained African businessmen and civil servants, and 2) the envy of his neighbors. To solve the first, he is channeling 25% of the country's $263 million budget into education (v. only 10% for the army) and setting up 50 technical institutes and training schools. As for such neighbors as Togo, Dahomey, Niger and Upper Volta, he says: "I'm not interested in making the Ivory Coast an oasis of prosperity in the middle of a desert of misery. Sooner or later...