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Both the letter by Mr. Schnur (CRIMSON 10/11/60) and the reply by Mr. Cowan missed most of the points worth making on the issue of the construction of fallout shelters. Mr. Schnur argued that we should construct shelters because nuclear war is possible and it is suicidal not to be prepared. Mr. Cowan argued irrelevantly that "the atmosphere created by current Civil Defense measures has unquestionably instilled in the American public a certain complacency about nuclear...
...shelter program would cost much more money, it would seem, than the prospective development by the Soviet Union of a way to circumvent it. The chief objection to a shelter program, and there are others which Mr. Cowan implied, thus emerges as economic. It would cost more money to construct than to countervail...
...treaty largely engineered by World Bank President Eugene Black. Under the treaty, India will receive the full flow of her three rivers. Pakistan will keep the three others. So that the Pakistani areas downstream of India's rivers will not turn arid, an Indus Basin Development Fund will construct a massive system of connecting canals, bringing water for the northern rivers to fill the empty southern river beds. Six foreign countries (the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia and two newcomers to the foreign aid game-West Germany and New Zealand) will supply $640 million of the fund's eventual...
...House," suspended him for 15 months. Delighted by his victory, Garcia used the occasion to push through a toothless anti-graft bill. But there were others who questioned Garcia's good intentions. Said loyal Nacionalista Arturo Modesto Tolentino: "When relatives of a President are able to construct mansions overnight after that President comes to power, can we prevent suspicion on the part of the people that such sudden opulence has been acquired through that President? The effect is the weakening of public faith in that President himself, and nobody can take him seriously when he preaches against graft...
...Ford Foundation's contribution will finance a team of Indian and foreign farm experts to take charge of the program, build teaching centers to train hundreds of additional agricultural specialists, and construct a network of seed-treatment and soil-testing stations. The government will expand local storage facilities, distribute fertilizer, insecticide and seed for sale to peasants, and create a farm-credit system to help farmers finance their own improvements. The scheme will operate along lines of U.S. soil-conservation projects; farmers who agree to improvement plans will get a package deal of soil testing, fertilization and planting that...