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...four or five abortions." Pills & Clinics. Throughout Latin America, the church still opposes most forms of birth control. But in some areas, individual priests are quietly going their own way. In Venezuela and Peru, they are participating without fanfare in government information programs; in Colombia, one is helping pre pare films and slides for family planning. And in Brazil, some even dispense birth-control devices to peasants. Last November, Chile's President Eduardo Frei launched a massive birth-control campaign in Santiago's squalid shanty towns, setting up a dozen clinics to distribute contraceptive pills. In December, Peru...
...last week it agreed to buy about another $100 million worth of grain from Canada. Most of the U.S.'s $340 million worth of exports to the East last year was in the form of grain for Poland and Russia. While this business has helped to pare Western crop surpluses, it has the disadvantage of being a one-shot affair that will quickly end if and when the Communists straighten out their farm mess. Western businessmen are thus looking yearningly toward the more stable business of exporting hard goods to the Communist countries...
...Rebuffed, by a 9-to-4 vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, an attempt by Committee Chairman J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas to split the $3.38 billion foreign-aid package into separate economic and military bills-a tactic by which he hoped to pare away more easily at the military portion. But the committee also rejected a request by President Johnson for authority to engage in blank-check military-assistance spending in Viet Nam. The committee softened the blow by increasing the President's contingency fund, designed to meet unforeseen cold-war crises anywhere, to $100 million, twice...
...blue-and-white General Assembly hall had been under the rule of the jackhammer. The semicircular rows of gleaming oaken desks had to be rearranged to make room for the U.N.'s population explosion: 115 members this year, v. 99 in 1960 and 51 at the founding. To pare down the time it takes for all of the delegations to vote, the desks were fitted out with buttons connected to a pair of large electronic boards beside the podium-green lights will flash on for aye, red for nay, yellow for abstention...
Model in the Yard. In a drive to get his railroad out of the red, Oeftering last week was preparing a plan to pare its welfare load, revamp its crazy-quilt fare structure, and get fresh government capital to retire its debt, which costs $130 million a year in interest. His plan will probably be derailed by Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's administration, but Oeftering hopes to gain at least some mileage. Battling to make the state road run more like private industry, he relaxes from his work in the basement of his modest Frankfurt home, where...