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...that what Hanoi wants most from the West is economic help, whether it comes in the form of aid or trade. Despite the $23 billion in assistance poured into South Viet Nam between 1950 and 1974, the newly united country remains, according to one top analyst, among the 25 poorest nations in the world. Its rich mineral resources, including oil, are largely untapped. In the wake of war, agriculture is a shambles. Viet Nam's foreign trade, mostly with the Soviet Union and Japan, ran a disastrous $570 million deficit last year...
...survive as a nation without close administrative ties to Jordan, perhaps as an autonomous member of the federation that Hussein once suggested (see box). For one thing, in addition to 700,000 Palestinians on the West Bank and in Gaza, another 1 million live in Jordan itself. Only the poorest, it is predicted, would leave their refugee camps to move to the new state. As a result, instead of taking shots at Hussein, the P.L.O. leadership now wants to open a dialogue with the King on possible political and economic connections, or "linkages," between Jordan and a future Palestinian state...
...States. The system of tax incentives and cheap labor that has attracted investors up to now would have to go; there are no grounds for supposing the economy would improve, except through some massive welfare program. Per capita income in Puerto Rico is about $2300, while in Mississippi, the poorest state, it is over $4000. Though every state contains pockets of misery that are worse off, no single administrative unit is so depressed. The island's geographic isolation would make any renewed private investment unlikely...
...island, dubbed Indian Island to notify the tourists, is a picturesque spot for a Sunday drive. But behind the plywood wigwams that advertise "REAL MOCCASINS" and "REST ROOMS" the Penobscot Indians subsist in tattered shelters that the tourists never manage to discover. For the Penobscot are among the poorest of the Native American tribes...
Heavy Obligations. Noting that 100 million Latin Americans live in extreme poverty, the commission would shift to the poorest nations all direct aid by the U.S. To help more developed countries like Brazil and Mexico, it favors large grants of new capital to international lending agencies. Such funding could enable the World and Inter-American Development banks to ease the burden of recession-generated debt that now erodes up to 40% of export earnings of some Latin American na tions. Says Linowitz: "We're focusing on how to permit these people to go forward without being strangled by their...