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Although 500 million of the world's 3.5 billion people still go to bed hun gry, agricultural technology has shown that food production can indeed keep ahead of population growth. Last week the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization reported that world farm output increased in 1968 by about 3% v. a population growth...
...China's 760 million people-one-fifth of mankind-some 500 million are peasants, hardly a foundation for a superpower. Despite efforts to extend schools to the farthest reaches of the country, more than half the population is illiterate. Production on China's communal farms has almost kept pace with the population, but it takes 85% of the labor force to grow the food. While the economy spurted ahead during the Communists' first decade at an estimated annual rate of 10%, it has been growing a mere 1% a year since...
...private talks, Mrs. Meir presented what she described as her "shopping list." In general, she wanted to be sure that the U.S. would continue to supply arms to Israel. Specifically, she asked for 25 more Phantom jet fighters (Israel has already begun to take delivery of 50, costing $200 million) and 80 Skyhawk jets. Noting the war's strain on Israel's budget, she requested a cut in the estimated 7% interest that Israel is still paying on the initial Phantom order...
Nasser was right. Trouble started soon after the delegates invited India, whose Moslem minority of 60 million gives it the world's third largest Islamic population (after Indonesia's 100 million and Pakistan's 90 million). Next day the Indian Ambassador to Morocco, a gray-bearded Sikh sporting an elegant white turban, joined the Congress. He was, of course, not a Moslem, and it was as if W. C. Fields had shuffled into a W.C.T.U rally. Sputtered a Pakistani journalist: "If India can come, there could be an Islamic summit next year to which Israel could...
...revolutionary government," Ovando shrugged at a press conference, "and we cannot yet speak about elections." Whatever its politics, Bolivia has become the ninth Latin American country to come under military rule, thus joining a growing club whose members now control more than half of Latin America's 260 million people...