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...Portuguese depart, both manufacturing and agriculture have sagged. Crop levels this year for tea, tobacco, cotton and cashew nuts have dropped sharply. At the port cities of Nacala, Beira and Lourenço Marques, efficiency is down 80% and pilferage has doubled in the past year. "What worries me," said a black civil servant, "is that Machel doesn't, seem to care if the standard of living falls here. In fact I think it fits in with his Maoist ideas. Maybe the camaradas [comrades] will take it in the countryside, but sooner or later he will have an urban...
...start sending airplanes here!" Later, complaining that Blair had been "undiplomatic, hot-tempered and totally drunk" during the talks, Amin charged that the envoy had threatened to order "British troops from Kenya" to invade Uganda, and that Britain had sent two warships "full of combat troops" to the Kenyan port of Mombasa...
...relatively few acres of good bottom land are owned by American sugar growers or by the Duvalier family and their friends. The rest of the island consists largely of steep hillsides that have been denuded of trees-the wood is converted to charcoal and sold in the capital of Port-au-Prince for five times the 300 a bag the peasants receive for it. When it does rain, the soil on the hills is washed away. There is, moreover, virtually no catchment system to conserve the water and free the peasants from the whims of the weather. "Irrigation" generally means...
Elusive Reality. There has been much talk in Port-au-Prince about the need for agricultural development, especially in reforestation and irrigation. Unfortunately, development plans usually get bogged down in the dusty corridors of one of the world's most uncaring and corrupt bureaucracies. The Duvalier family alone skims at least $6 million a year from the government's revenues-about one-fifth of the country's entire budget-while Jean-Claude recently inaugurated a huge $3 million mausoleum honoring Papa Doc. "We live only in fantasies; reality eludes us," Publisher Dieudonne Fardin recently complained in Haiti...
...banks assume. Morgan Guaranty predicts the OPEC countries' imports will grow by 20% a year. Levy concedes that OPEC imports rose even more than that last year, but doubts the oil countries can keep up the pace. The thinly populated Arab states lack the expertise, labor, port facilities and inland transportation network necessary to handle that big a tide of foreign goods. In addition, many of last year's imports were fighter planes, tanks and other highly destructive weapons, and there are questions of how much longer the Western nations will continue selling so much dangerous gear...