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Rence M. Cheng '85, president of the Harvard Hunger Action Committee directing the Nov. 15 fast, said she expects 85 to 95 percent of undergraduates to participate, up 10 percent from last year...
When the trial opened last week in St. George's, the island's capital, the proceedings were livery indeed. At one point, Phyllis Coard collapsed on the courtroom floor. As four policewomen struggled to lift the defendant, she shouted, "I've been on a hunger strike for six weeks!" Observed the trial judge dryly: "I must say, her voice doesn't sound like an ill person's." Other defendants, when asked to enter their pleas, loudly challenged the tribunal's legitimacy, and several said they refused to be tried while Grenada was under foreign...
...effort to help alleviate world hunger. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith spoke before the United Nations General Assembly Friday, encouraging troubled third-world nations to support agricultural reforms over industrial development...
...order to relieve food shortages, hunger stricken nations should remove government price limits on the food market and rescind unfair protections for industrialists and urban laborers...
Unemployment, homelessness and hunger remain serious problems in cities. The national economic recovery has not closed the employment and income gap for minority youth and displaced workers regardless of race. Federal aid is the tool with which cities can address such problems. Unless the mayors overcome partisanship and stand together, and this may mean open and public disagreement with Mr. Reagan, the chances are that federal aid to cities will be an early victim in next spring's gun vs. butter (or even margarine...