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AFGHANISTAN. This small (pop. 12 million) but strategic country has accepted $145 million in Soviet credits, now ranks among the five top recipients of Russian aid. The bulk of the Soviet money has gone to finance arms purchases, hydroelectric projects, grain elevators, a flour mill and a bakery. The Russians' most conspicuously successful gesture in winning Afghan good will was paving the streets of Kabul-a project that had been turned down by the U.S. as economically unproductive. Despite signs that its rulers are worried at the prospect of sinking too deep into the Soviet embrace, nearly half...
...with a $6,000,000 credit), and near Djokjakarta 40 East German technicians, backed up by a $13 million East German credit, are rebuilding a war-damaged sugar mill. Neither deal has proved very popular. Style-conscious Indonesians find the rough-finish GAZ jeeps unimpressive, and the sugar-mill project is already two years behind schedule. "What those so-called technicians are doing I don't know," complains one annoyed Indonesian official. But, angered by U.S. hesitation to meet its request for arms, the Indonesian government is threatening to buy arms from Soviet satellites, last week sent military missions...
...cotton rats, with sugar-rich and sugar-free chow, with test tubes and dissecting boards. The twofold aim: to find out how certain sugars promote tooth decay, then to find a way to forestall it. The Sugar Research Foundation, Inc., set up by the sugar industry, bankrolled the project for a total of $57,000. Now, in the Journal of the American Dental Association, Dr. Shaw reports his findings...
...National Council has been publishing Memo sporadically for about seven years, but last week the publication and its sponsor were moving into high gear. Everyone connected with the project was quick to say that it would not be a Protestant lobby. "We represent too many denominations [34] with too wide a range of interests to be a lobby even if we wanted to," says the Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr., Dean of the Episcopal Washington Cathedral. "What we are going to try to do is to throw into the discussion of national and world affairs down here what might...
...project arose from three high-level discussions held last year under the auspices of the cathedral and attended by such laymen as White House Economist Gabriel Hauge, Journalists Walter Lippmann and James Reston, Industrialist Paul Hoffman, and such clergymen as Washington's Episcopalian Bishop Angus Dun and Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. Behind closed doors, they discussed Christian responsibility in economics, international affairs and nuclear energy. Out of their meetings grew the idea that Protestantism should set up a permanent organization in the capital. Selected to head the new project was the Rev. Dr. Fred S. Buschmeyer...