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CLOSING THE WIDENING GAP
I
N MY TRIP
around the world last Sep–
tember, I spoke before a group of pro–
fessional aod businessmen at a Rotary Club luncheoo in
Singapore. Later, in Tokyo, I addressed a group of
high-raoking professors from various universities in
Japao, selected and brought together by Prince Mikasa,
brother of Emperor Hirohito.
Now I am on another round-the-world tour, writing again
from New Delhi, India. And here an incident has come to my
attention reminiscent of those two occasions in September. The
President of Rotary International, Mr. William E. Walk, Jr.,
recently visited India. Sorne of the things he said here reminded
me of what 1 said
in
the above-mentioned speecbes.
Mr. Walk was emphasizing a basic world problem. lsn't it
incongruous that modern man can bridge the gap between the
earth and the moon - yet he cannot bridge the gap between
the haves and the have-nots, between one generation and the
next, between races and classes, between one nation and
another?
And
WHY
do these gaps keep widening?
We live today in a world of advanced technological and
economic interdependence. But it is divided in many ways by
historical and psychological hangovers from the past.
In the past, lack of transportation and communication
facilities isolated local areas. Today both rapid transportation
and near-instantaneous communication facilities go hand
in
hand with interdependence among nations in a highly special–
ized industrial civilization.
Tbe incredible development of rapid transportation and
communication should have brought understanding between
peoples. Yet these faci lities have not contributed
to
bridging
the gap between past isolation and today's interdependence.
An unwillingness to utilize modern technological advantages
for co-operation and constructive purposes has, on the contrary,
widened the gap and increased friction, suspicion, maneuvering
of governments
for selñsh
a.dvantage and power.
On both the September tour and the present one, meet–
ings have been set up (not of my initiating) with a number of
chiefs of state - Prime Ministers, P residents, a King.
An
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Why
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Significance of The
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Red China-
"A
Paper Dragon?"
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What YOU Can
Do . . . . . . . .
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"Dear God- Why Did You
Let Tommy Die?"
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Cairo, Egypt.
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was hijacked in
Scptcmber by Palcstinian guerrillas.
Passengers barely had time to scram·
ble ro safety as the
$24
million
jumbo jet aircraft exploded in a
series of deafening roars.
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was one of four planes hijacked
by the guerrillas. Tbe other three
were taken to Dawson airstrip
outside Amman, Jordan. Called
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(Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine) - ir is a bakcd·mud
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A around·
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flight 100
and BOAC Flight
775
were blown apart by guerrillas,
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