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Mujib returned to the most tumultuous welcome Dacca had ever seen-and a staggering array of problems in probably the poorest (and most densely populated) country on earth. There were virtually no civil servants and little industry. Ports were clogged, railroads destroyed, the educated elite savaged. Worse, what had not been destroyed in war was soon destroyed by a devastating drought in 1973 and floods last year that inundated three-quarters of the country...
...Comoro Islands, situated between Mozambique and the island republic of Malagasy, are not only one of the world's least-known places but also one of the poorest. The 290,000 people who inhabit the four islands have a per capita G.N.P. (mostly from vanilla, sisal and copra) of about $100. If France, which acquired the islands in the 19th century, did not provide an annual $35 million, or 80% of the budget, their misery would be absolute rather than conditional. Last week, after a 27-day flirtation with total freedom from France, the Comoros decided to temper independence...
...stabilizing the prices of a broad range of other raw materials, which, unlike oil, have collapsed. Kissinger now proposes that the conference set up three commissions: one for energy, another to discuss raw materials generally, and a third to examine ways in which the industrialized world could assist the poorest developing countries...
...seen. The Shah of Iran and many Third World leaders want to "index" raw-materials prices to rates of inflation in the West so that commodity prices will rise as much as the prices of manufactured goods. Kissinger flatly opposes that idea, contending that it would hurt the poorest, most populous nations, which import more raw materials than they export. It is doubtful too that the new U.S. willingness to consider stabilization agreements will diminish commodity producers' desire to form cartels that set prices arbitrarily. Nonetheless, international bodies such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development...
...They should have to pay all they're on a level with the poorest individual in town," Bergman said. "Till we have equality we don't have justice...