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...idea whose time has come." Peru, however, objected to the leadership role of the U.S. Said Finance Minister Luis Alva Castro: "We do not accept there being a single country that is subject to no control whatsoever while the countries of the Third World are condemned to hunger." Even so, Brazil's Minister of Finance, Dilson Funaro, whose country is the biggest Latin American debtor, said that he was "very optimistic" about the plan and that it was "a good...
...World Hunger: The Lessons of Ethiopia: Frances Moore Lappe and Deborah Toler, Northeastern University's Alumni Auditorium...
Elek needs another $1000 and has already raised at least that amount. A native Pennsylvanian known to his friends as Hentzi, Elek went in a group of seven New England college and graduate students calling themselves the "American Scholars Against World Hunger...
Elek also worked as a chief organizer for the Ride for Life, a Harvard-Radcliffe based group that bicycles across the United States each summer, donating the proceeds to hunger organizations...
During the past month, Latin American leaders have gone on a lectern- pounding campaign for concessions from their lenders. Brazilian President Jose Sarney, among others, took the appeal to the U.N. General Assembly. Declared Sarney: "Brazil will not pay its foreign debt with recession, not with unemployment, nor with hunger." Peru's President Alan Garcia Perez, whose country owes $14 billion, has threatened to pull out of the IMF unless the agency gives his country more breathing room. Mexico's President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado took a similar, if less militant, stand. Even before the deadly earthquake hit last...