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...Harvard-Radcliffe international Development Forum will use its grant to continue to fund events that increase public awareness of Third World issues of hunger, political instability, and economic inequality, said let chairman. Eggert Dagbjartsson '86. The Forum also promote effects to aid underdeveloped countries and create more economic and political stability in countries such as Lebanon and Ethiopia, Dagbjartsson added...
Calling for an end to hunger, sexual harassment, and environmental poisoning of farm workers, Chavez said, "We have allowed ourselves to become victims in a democratic society...
Miners in the Andes have long used coca leaves to suppress hunger and induce a mild euphoria to help them ignore the cold. Others use them as an anesthetic or to ward off altitude sickness. For many, coca leaves are simply a cure-all. "Hot or cold, it's a different kind of drink, good for the stomach. It reduces weight. It restores energy," proclaims an advertisement for coca tea in Peru, where the marketing of coca-based products is quite legal...
...allure of a village marketplace, "the air luscious with the smells of spices, of frying coconut oil and garlic and cumin, the scents of frangipani and lime." The counterimage appears in a neighborhood of ghetto shanties, where everything "smelled like rotting fruit and kerosene, urine and garlic." In Hunger, a lone white works alongside a team of black fishermen; near the end of their labors, they all retire to a deserted beach for an extended evening feast. The outsider marvels at the smells that begin simmering from the cooking pots. He also recoils when he sees a comrade slice...
...offshoot of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang of the 1970s, smashed windows of six banks and attempted a fire-bombing of an electronics company warehouse in Bremen. It was the 30th such strike by the R.A.F. since early December, when 30 imprisoned members of the terrorist group began a hunger strike for better prison conditions...