Word: surinam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walsh has devoted most of his adult life to saving and protecting animals. He took part in "Operation Gwamba," which in 1964 rescued some 10,000 animals from the reservoir area of a new dam in Surinam, worked to curtail the slaughter of baby seals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, set up feeding programs for starving huskies near the Arctic Circle and aided animals that survived an earthquake in Peru, floods in Italy and a hurricane in Honduras. But Noah II, which is scheduled to last until Christmastime, is in financial trouble. Letters to nearly a thousand...
...Neigh boring Surinam also claims Guyanese territory in a dispute over riparian boundaries...
...those who believe that educational involvement in Iran is morally wrong, Keenan asks, "Would you collaborate in an institution in the Soviet Union, Algeria, Surinam? Would you let someone die of typhus because somebody else in that country is doing something wrong? You have to decide if the university is a morally uplifting institution. And in my view...
...many talented Hindustanis had not left the country, the aid would not be needed quite so critically. Surinam is one of the world's leading exporters of bauxite, the ore from which aluminum is refined. Already determined reserves are more than 500 million tons, and untold additional tonnage is believed to exist beneath unexplored jungle. Surinam provides about one-fifth of U.S. bauxite needs. Meanwhile, the new nation has other markets and friends. Venezuela will soon give oil to Surinam in exchange for bauxite, and Brazil may build a highway through the jungle to gain another port...
...emigration of talent and labor hurts. Last week a diplomat's wife complained that there was only one plumber left in Paramaribo. There were hundreds of doctors, teachers and merchants among the emigrants, and the manpower hemorrhage included not only professionals but critically important farm workers as well. Surinam, a nation that imports more than 50% of its foodstuffs, must now also import farm workers to help harvest its sugar cane crops...