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...minorities. That was, in fact, precisely the effort that Reagan was making last week. He traveled to Atlanta to stress his commitment to civil rights and women's concerns before a convention of the American Bar Association, announced that a task force would study the problem of hunger in America, and increased the Government's distribution of surplus cheese and other foods to the needy...
...addition, although everyone in the Administration would like to see an increase in aid, there are divisions about how much, over how long a period and in what form. Kirkpatrick insists that the trouble in Central America is primarily economic and social: the poverty, hunger, illiteracy and disease that win masses of recruits for Marxist revolution. She has long advocated a "Marshall Plan" for the area that would provide a sharp and continuing increase in aid well into the future. Three times she wrote a recommendation for such a plan into drafts of Reagan's April 27 speech to Congress...
Pallotta said that several participants have wired home for money, and that officials of the organization affiliated with the trip--Oxfam America, a Boston-based foundation committed to reducing world hunger--have pledged whatever additional support is needed for the remainder of the journey...
...really something different," said Carol Gibson, who helped organize a dinner for the riders last night at the First Unitarian Church, a Shaker Heights parish of about 600 families. Despite the unique character of the ride Gibson said, "we have done quite a bit for hunger, and it seems to tie in quite nicely with the work of the church...
Gibson explained that doing something for the hunger of the riders was the prime activity at the church last night, as local high school students and others helped serve home-cooked spaghetti with meat, tossed salad, garlic bread, lemonade, vegetables and dip, and--for dessert--some cookies...