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Though disappointed by the reduced allocations, the hurricane hunters do not find the halt entirely unwelcome. In fact, meteorologists are beginning to believe that tropical storms may more than offset the damage they cause by the good they do. Scientists already know that in such places as Japan, India, Southeast Asia−even in the southeastern portion of the U.S.−tropical storms provide up to 25% of available rainfall. If this vital precipitation were ever cut off by man's interference with such storms, the results might be ruinous for farmers, industry and drinking-water supplies. Now many...
...powers invalidate the need for a policy of nonalignment? Or does détente serve to reinforce the status quo-that is, a world of a few strong nations and many weak ones-and hence make the need for a coordinated policy all the more imperative? Apparently hoping to offset such a conclusion. Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev sent a message to Boumedienne arguing that the issue was not between big and small or rich and poor but "between the forces of socialism and reaction...
...withheld recognition of Bangladesh, and last year used its veto in the Security Council to deny it U.N. membership. Some sources in Dacca now believe that Peking will recognize Bangladesh even before Pakistan does. That would allow the Chinese to recover a profitable market for their manufactured goods-and offset the favorable impression that Moscow made in Bangladesh by its postwar relief efforts...
...good management alone cannot offset the entire loss. Summer school deficits caused by Phase III freezes, along with future price rises, could swell that figure to over $300,000--perhaps as high as a half-million dollars. Personnel will not be cut back, Hall promised, so something must give elsewhere...
...continuing surge in farm exports presents the U.S. with a golden opportunity. It will help shrink the nation's disruptive payments deficit, strengthen the dollar in world markets and offset the growing cost of buying more and more oil, gas and other materials abroad. Having given up the unrealistic goal of policing the world, the U.S. can turn with enthusiasm to the more rewarding job of trying to feed...