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...fact, the government has undertaken such an ambitious investment and development program that, given their failure to achieve marked increases in labor productivity, a labor shortage has actually been created. To help relieve it, during the harvest season people who normally work at, say, office jobs or in factories, go out to the fields in the voluntary labor program...
...flight are targets for the newly unleashed MIGs or for antiaircraft fire that appears to be directed by five radar-equipped Russian trawlers lying off the coast. Flying into Uli aboard one such flight last week, TIME Correspondent James Wilde found Biafrans grim. The struggling country had a good harvest recently, but supplies will last no longer than three months. Food rationing has already begun...
Three Levels. The barn's design displays a canny combination of the practical and the monumental. Constructed of wood and stone within a 270-ft. circumference, it ranged cows and horses facing into a central core. At harvest time, wagons bearing fresh loads from the fields could enter by a separate driveway that led to the level above the stalls, then drive around the circle, distributing feed in the hayloft. A manure pit beneath the stable level permitted cow dung to fall through trapdoors and be easily carted away...
...stabilization filter down to the masses soon, political problems may surface again. The new five-year plan is dependent in part on foreign aid, which totals $500 million this year, $208 million of that from the U.S. A drop in assistance could cripple the plan. So could a bad harvest. The bureaucracy remains often corrupt, inefficient and underemployed, and civil service reform is a long way off. The nation's Chinese minority (about 3,000,000 out of a total population of more than 112 million) is a problem. They control an estimated 75% of Indonesian commerce, which provokes...
More impoitant, Myrberg's studies of the linguistics of fish may help to fill the world's food needs. Once sharks and other predators that normally swim singly or in small groups can be concentrated into selected areas, it may become profitable for commercial fishermen to "harvest" them, thereby tapping a rich new source of protein. Similar tactics might be used to satisfy less adventuresome tastes in seafood. "If we can make this little damselfish twist and turn around in the open sea," says Myrberg, "maybe some day we can make a snapper jump into...