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...forum of ten British Commonwealth nations, it has become the accepted regional headquarters for development plans affecting a quarter of the world's population. In that time $6 billion in foreign aid has been pledged to its member countries-nearly $5 billion of it from the U.S. About two-thirds of all the aid has gone to India. The original overall goals (17% more irrigated land, 10% more food produced, 67% more electricity generated have long since been attained, yet so vast is the area's increase in population (10 million annually) that living standards have risen only...
...Philippine standards, it turned out to be the most peaceable election ever; although during the six-week campaign 38 Filipinos had been killed and 131 wounded, only two killings were reported on election day. But it was also an election, noted Manila's Philippines Free Press, in which "the corruption of the people with their own money" reached "awesome" proportions. With the rich resources of government funds at their disposal, Garcia's Nacionalistas reportedly spent $4,500,000 buying votes in Cebu Province (pop. 1,324,880) alone...
...planes "from whoever may be willing to supply them," i.e., Russia, if need be. He patted Cuba's new government on the back for "unequaled sportsmanship" in remaining friendly to the U.S. people, recounted "sacrifices" Cuba had made, e.g., selling sugar at low prices to the U.S. during two world wars. He brushed off Cuba's expropriation of U.S. property as involving only "transitory interests" of a "small group" of U.S. citizens...
...annual $10 million budget comes from Brazil. The outfit runs 249 rural clinics, 22 hospitals, 109 city water systems, 97 sewage-disposal systems. It has broadened life expectancy from 30 to 41 years, reduced infant mortality in some areas as much as 50%, confidently plans to eliminate filariasis in two years and malaria in seven. Last week in Iquitos, Peruvian and Colombian health ministers signed a bilateral pact to eradicate small pox, malaria and yellow fever in ther parts of the Amazon basin...
...Two other big problems are power and transportation. Brazil's Amazon development board has built or is building plant to boost power by 61,000 kw. It has cut roads into millions of empty acres and most important, has connected the Amazon basin to the rest of Brazil by a 1,363 mile jungle highway from Belém south to the new capital of Brasilia...