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New Zealand's new Prime Minister is Keith J. Holyoake, 56, who will have a solid ten-vote majority in the new Parliament. The son of a farmer, Holyoake left school at twelve to help run the family farm in Riwaka. He finished his education with correspondence courses, has...
A conciliator rather than an innovator, Holyoake will maintain most of the Labor Party's existing welfare programs, but will call a halt to further nationalization in an effort to stimulate the renewed growth of private enterprise. With Labor's leadership either enfeebled by age or shot down...
Only 35 miles from Manila, the Philippine barrio (village) of Santo Nino is a town out of the Middle Ages-without plumbing, electricity or medicine. One cause of Santo Nino's squalor is its isolation; for centuries its only access to the outside world has been a winding trail...
Santo Nino's farm-to-market road is part of a quiet revolution in the Philippines' 24,000 rural villages. Bureaucratically known as PACD (for office of the Presidential Assistant on Community Development) and financed by the U.S. International Cooperation Administration and the Philippine government, the four-year...
Poll Watcher. At a total cost of $30 million, PACD has raised rice production through village-scaled irrigation projects to as high as 5,000 Ibs. per acre (nearly five times the Philippine average), re-seeded fishermen's depleted oyster beds, supplied farmers with 10,000 brood sows and...