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Last year, after Sakharov staged two hunger strikes on behalf of his ailing wife, Bonner was given permission to visit the West for medical treatment. A heartbypass operation in Boston last January was a success, and Bonner took her doctor's advice to stop smoking. Her health and political status were all important; before leaving the Soviet Union, say family members, she signed a pledge not to call press conferences while abroad. Bonner showed every intention of living up to the letter of the agreement. When she first arrived in Rome last December, she told expectant reporters, "Please excuse...
...idea just as broad and almost as hyperbolic as America. On Sunday afternoon of Memorial Day weekend, nearly 5 1/2 million people joined hands along a 4,152-mile line across the country to raise funds--and consciousness --for fighting hunger and homelessness in the U.S. Participants linked up for 15 minutes and sang We Are the World, the Hands Across America theme and America the Beautiful, joyfully celebrating the day and the togetherness "from sea to shining...
None of the megaevents of the past year and a half have reversed the virulent course of world hunger. Still, they have made some small inroads. Revenues from Live Aid, British Pop Star Bob Geldof's celebrity-stacked, bicontinental hunger concert, combined with the money raised by USA for Africa (which produced We Are the World and is the parent organization of Hands), total more than $140 million. Working with various relief groups, the Geldof organization has already shipped more than 100,000 metric tons of supplies to Africa. Proceeds from Hands, which optimistic organizers estimate could reach | about...
...prominent celebrity who was invited but had not answered requests to participate in the festivities spoke out on the issue of hunger in America last week. Defending his plans for continued cutbacks in federal funding for social programs, Ronald Reagan said, "I don't believe that there is anyone going hungry in America by reason of denial or lack of ability to feed them; it is by people not knowing where or how to get this help...
Given the timing, Reagan's remarks on hunger sounded a bit Scrooge-like. In a last-minute effort to dispel that image, the President belatedly decided to allow the human chain to snake through the White House grounds and to join in himself. "This house," said Reagan, "belongs to all the people and is a symbol of the American dream." But for obvious security reasons, not "all the people" will be permitted in the White House segment of the line--only Secret Service agents, White House personnel and families and accredited journalists...