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Maintaining that the problem of food policy is one of distribution rather than of production, Nicholas N. Eberstadt '76, a research fellow of the Center for Population Studies, said, "Something approaching extreme poverty and hunger still exists in China today...
...refer to this production focus as narrow precisely because it ignores the social reality of hunger--the problem of releasing the vast untapped human potential of local people developing local resources and skills. Reducing the problem of agriculture to one simply of production increasingly divorces agricultural progress from basic rural development. Such a mirage of rural development undercuts the interests of those within the rural community in order to serve those outside--landowning elites, moneylenders, industrialists, bureaucrats, and foreign investors...
Considering the prominence of Asia in discussions of present world hunger, the two Asian articles that marked the pages of the 1977 Washington Post seem a token gesture: "Indonesia's Population Problem Discussed." "Laos...Seeks International Aid to Prevent Famine...
Three years ago, such musical missionary work would have been unthinkable. Now, with the government's blessing, China's musicians are seeking guidance with a hunger and intensity that is daunting. Like everyone else whose work involved the intellect or the arts, the nation's musicians saw their spiritual life erased for ten years by the Gang of Four. From 1966 to 1976 Chinese orchestras were allowed to play only a few granitic compositions; conservatories became inactive...
...rate of five or six per day. The victims range from the scores of young men who have been picked up by the Guard only to turn up lifeless on some roadside the next morning, to the five children who tried two weeks ago to stage a hunger strike in support of the opposition to General Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the President and dictator, to the guy from Cedar Rapids who taught at the American school in Managua and was killed last weekend...