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...troubling question was whether India, which plans to spend some $316 million over the next five years on atomic energy development, has confused its priorities. For a nation where 25% of the 580 million inhabitants subsist below the annual $30 per capita poverty line, such an investment seemed dubious at best...
Terrible Mistakes. In Africa, a five-year drought has parched the 2,600 mile-long "savannah belt," just south of the Sahara Desert. As a result, large portions of six African nations-Senegal, Mauritania, Upper Volta, Mali, Chad and Niger-now subsist mainly on international contributions of food (TIME, Sept. 3). Although man cannot be blamed for the lack of rain, a recent study by the U.S. Agency for International Development reports that the Africans' efforts to gain a better living from the potentially productive land have made a bad situation much worse...
...along. That is not the way it was supposed to be. The founding fathers not only expected them to work closely in tandem, they worried about it. During the debates at the Constitutional Convention, Elbridge Gerry, who would become Vice President in 1813, complained: "The close intimacy that must subsist between the President and Vice President makes the relationship absolutely improper." To which Gouverneur Morris replied: "The Vice President then will be the first heir apparent that ever loved his father...
...million people who subsist below the $6500 adequate income level to work with 70 million people in the $5000 to $15,000 income range, we have a hypothetical majority of the population," he added...
...sufficiently filtered down to many blue-and white-collar workers and professionals, as well as elderly people living on wretched pensions. Nearly two-thirds of the country's 15 million workers earn less than $300 a month, while more than 2.5 million retired men and women subsist on a social security pension of $2.40 a day. Unemployment is increasing, the housing shortage has worsened for low-income families, and prices have risen 13% in the past two years. For millions, such gross inequalities seem to loom larger than the cold war specter of Communism...