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More than $10 billion worth of projects has been approved since 1967. Yet, with an annual per capita income of only $185, Indonesia's 140 million people rank among the world's poorest. Roughly 6 million people are unemployed. The influx of foreign funds was led by an oil boom that has made Indonesia, with a daily output of 1.7 million bbl., Asia's only main exporter of crude. Corruption and haphazard government policies, however, have slowed further oil exploration to a crawl, and Indonesia may lose its exporting position within a decade...
...truth is that good food in America is little more than a memory and a hope," claim the authors in their introduction, entitled "The Rape of the Palate." "We were one of the best-fed countries in the world; we have become one of the poorest." This tragedy, according to the Hesses, is as much the result of myths which Americans have been led to believe as it is the consequence of modern methods of mass food production. The high priests of gourmandise and nutrition--home economists, restaurant critics, cookbook writers, food historians, FDA officials--have all contributed...
...accent, Melina Mercouri advises Jackson from abroad, using a portable phone to check on the abbess' progress. It is funny once or twice, but not as a running gag. Still, there are few problems with the acting save the occasional air of embarrassment from the nuns who deliver the poorest lines...
...Indian tribes that were sprinkled about the continent when the Europeans first came settling. The Indians, since the confrontation at Wounded Knee in 1890 that marked the end of their serious resistance to the white newcomers, have lived in relative peace amid the prevalent society. They are among the poorest of all national minorities, the most prone to illness, the least educated, the most resistant to assimilation into the mainstream of American life. They have been, as well, the least conspicuous and most docile of minorities-until recently. Now they are on a warpath of sorts again, armed this time...
...what end? Proponents of the project tout it as the salvation of what is now one of the nation's poorest regions. Mississippi Senator John Stennis calls Tenn-Tom "the greatest economic milestone since the Louisiana Purchase." Says Alabama Governor George Wallace, who detonated the first blast of dynamite inaugurating Tenn-Tom: "I'll do everything in my power to see that this worthwhile project is carried through to the finish." Already $189 million in federal funds has been spent...