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Ploy number two is to target foreign (especially Third World) markets, where citizens are less aware of smoking's dangers. Even as the U.S. government condemns South American coca producers who export their drug to the U.S., American tobacco companies are selling their drug in locales such as China and the Philipines at record rates...
...think we need a special program to explain Henson's death to us, the big kids, the people who learned to read and count by watching Sesame Street and who have moved on to bigger tasks such as interpreting nuclear politics in the Third World...
CFCs, used as refrigerants and solvents, are believed to be destroying the planet's ozone layer, and President Bush has joined in a worldwide call for a sharp cut in their use. But by refusing to supply additional funds to help Third World countries switch to substitutes, the U.S. would make reductions difficult. The White House argues that the money should come from existing World Bank funds and not from new contributions -- but also admits that the World Bank does not have the extra money available...
...lean for a few years under the belt-tightening policies and would then turn rosy. But their deadlines are long past, and their promises are unfulfilled. According to a World Bank report last year, the gap in per capita income between sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the Third World keeps widening. In 1988 the contrast was $330 vs. an average $750 for all developing countries. The nations of black Africa, home to 470 million people, together have the purchasing power of Belgium, a country of only 10 million...
...July 22 Reflections was published in the New York Times and later was widely reprinted. The International Publishers Association said that in 1968-69 more than 18 million copies were published around the world, putting me in third place after Mao Zedong and Lenin and ahead of Georges Simenon and Agatha Christie...