At the close of the Second Development Decade, 1971-1980, the Third World was able to record significant achievements in industrialization and external trade. But the army of jobless has swollen further; the urban slums have grown larger; and famine has claimed more, not fewer victims. The...

The Soviet Union has good prospects of becoming the dominant supplier of gold in the world, for its own mining reserves are large and the deposits in the Western world are nearing exhaustion. This need not however - as is shown in the following article - give rise to excessive fears in the West...