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Rarely had a conclusion been so inconclusive. After a four-month, $320,000 probe into the extent of hunger in the U.S., the 13-member President's Task Force on Food Assistance produced a report last week that wound up by saying, "We have not been able to substantiate allegations of rampant hunger." Though the study acknowledged that some were going hungry, it insisted there was no way to determine who and how many...
...findings. Their reaction blighted White House hopes that the investigation would be accepted as the "no-holds-barred study" President Reagan had requested. He created the commission last August amid a welter of complaints that the deep cuts in federal food programs had contributed to an alarming rise in hunger...
World suffering would have been a more realistic subject. Very few issues of TIME during 1983 were without pictures or stories of people suffering from effects of war, hunger or poverty...
...point where 100,000 sugar-cane cutters were doing the work formerly done by 350,000, and that similar productivity gains applied to other branches of industry. Castro heaped scorn on some other Latin American nations, particularly Brazil, where huge foreign debts accompany "constant reports of social calamities, unemployment, hunger, inflation...
...Taiwan ("I misstated"), his endorsement of a unified Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty, and the campaign promise of a balanced budget ("In the first place, I said that [a balanced budget] was our goal, not a promise."). And in the wake of the current furor over the President's special hunger commission and the presence of a widespread problem, it is unlikely that the archives will put out on display the text of a 1964 TV speech in which the retired actor said "We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry every night. Well, that...