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Birth rate
New Delhi, India-In the wake of apolitical furor over
compulsory sterilization, India's new government pledged
Saturday to curb the nation's birth rate through
traditional, voluntary contraceptive methods. But Health
Minister Raj Narain emphasized that lowering India's
annual birth rate, estimated at 14 million, remains a top
priority of the government of Prime Minister Morarji
Desai.
India's population of 620 million, nearly three times
that of the United States, lives in an area less than a third
the size of the 50 American states. "We are totally against,
fundamentally against compulsory sterilization," Narain
told reporters. He said the government will increase dis
tribution of free contraceptives and encourage Indians to
have small families for their economic well being.
Vance returns
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Washington-President Carter welcomed Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance home Saturday from arms negotiations
in Moscow and said he believed the Soviets "will
ultimately agree with us." Carter, accompanied by his
wife Rosalynn, made a special point of expressing thanks
to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko "for very productive negotia
tions on a number of issues outside strategic arms limita
tions" ,
In brief remarks at Andrews Air Force Base, Carter
continued to back his comprehensive arms proposal for
deep cuts in strategic arsenals of the superpowers. He said
it was a "necessary first step" to reduce the dangers of
nuclear war. "We will do everything we can to strengthen
our ties of friendship and mutual trust with the Soviet
leaders," Carter said.
"I believe that the Soviets will ultimately agree with us
to the benefit of the American people and Soviet people
and the rest of the world to reduce their dependence on
these nuclear weapons." Vance, who made stops in
Brussels, Bonn, London and Paris as well as Moscow,
said the search for arms control was "an ongoing process"
which could take "a long time in the future."
Creeping taxes
' Washington-Taxes on farm real estate have crept up
consistently since World War II and have shown no
evidence of leveling off despite attempts by some states
and local units of government to find alternative sources
of revenue. In 1975, according to a new study by the
Agriculture Dept., the farm real estate tax bill was more
than $2.85 billion, up 7.7 from $2.65 billion in 1974,
A further increase undoubtedly occurred in 1976 and
still another gain is expected this year, according to USDA
analysts. The analysis of 1975 farm real estate taxes was
prepared by the department's Economic Research Service,
based on surveys made last spring and summer among
more than 37,100 farmers and 3,400 local tax officials.
Jesus film praised
New York-A wave of praise by religious leaders for
the television movie "Jesus of Nazareth" has drowned out
earlier controversy. Even the most vocal protester has
changed his mind after seeing the film. The surge of
acclaim has come from various parts of the church
spectrum-conservative and progressive, Protestant and
Roman Catholic, as well as Jewish-following previews of
the six-hour presentation.
It "outranks all previous film versions of the gospel,"
says the Rev. Dr. Ben Armstrong of Morristown, N.J.
executive secretary of the National Religious
Broadcasters. The $18 million production, with a score of
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film celebrities in the cast, will be aired' by NEC-TV in
two segments, the first last night and the second on
Easter Sunday.
Sun's power
VVashington-The sun's clean and inexhaustible power
can supply 40 of the world's energy needs within 25
years and 75 in 50 years if a drive to develop it starts
now, a new study says. The transition to solar energy
would not be cheap or easy, but its benefits would far
outweigh the costs and difficulties,' said the 79-page
study by Denis Hayes, a researcher at a nonprofit study
group called the World Watch Institute.
The study said there could be a dramatic expansion in
the next 50 years of energy collected from sunlight, wind,
water and burning organic matter-all direct or indirect
sources of solar energy. "If the 50-year timetable is not
met," Hayes wrote, "the roadblocks will have been
political- not technical."
Tornado damages
Tornadoes touched down in at least four Midwestern
states Saturday, causing heavy property damage, killing
a child and injuring at least a dozen persons. One twister
demolished a 12-block section of Augusta, Mich., in
Kalamazoo County, and killed a child who was riding in
a car in Eaton County, authorities reported.
Tornadoes struck five other Michigan communities
Comstock, Galesburg, Milford, Howell and Bath
Township-but none was hit as hard as Augusta.
Authorities in nearby Galesburg said at least eight houses
were damaged or demolished by the twister, which cut
a northeasterly path for at least five miles through
Kalamazoo County. The tornado was preceded by golf-ball-size
hail, authorities said. Rooftops were ripped
from houses in the Milwaukee suburb of Brookfield, Wis.,
in storms described by local authorities as tornadoes.
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