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Show Monster Wlthlbpl0n is Problem the most popu- lous country on earth. Each year, Chinese women give birth to 12 million surviving Infants, a number equal to the entire population of Australia. Although China conducts no systematic census, some of its demographers insist that Chinese women currently give birth to only 47,000 babies per day, down from 75,000 per day In 1970. They point to statistics which reveal a decrease during the '70s of 56 million births, which Is equivalent to the total population of Italy. Whichever figures are used, Chinas population problem is alarming. In the course of their lives, Chinese women average three children each. The government Is determined to reduce this to one child. It has intensified its campaign to the point of ordering its 28 million Communist Party members to set a national example. Last year, more than 6 million cerfamilies received to which entitle them tificates, various educational and housing benefits. Even so, 25 of Chinese women of childbearing age gave birth to three or more children. If incentives and rewards cannot control the population, as a final measure, China may order sterilization after a couple has one child. one-chil- d one-chil- d Buying Margaret Thatcher, prime The DOS! minister of Great Britain, has hired an economist for $120,000 nearly twice her own salary to help improve the economy of her country. He is Alan Walters, who for the p.st four years has been professor of political economy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore as well as a consultant to the World Bank. Walters, 54, the son of a Leicestershire laborer, is an outstanding authority on monetary economics. He is being paid $68,400 by the British government as a second permanent secretary and another $51,600 by the Conservative Center for of Policy Studies, the think-tanthe Conservative Party. Mrs. Thatcher draws a salary of 23,500 pounds ($56,400) and another 6930 pounds ($16,077) as a parliamentary allowance. Jp k 4 |
