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...addition to the small size of the financial contribution, American efforts to ease the problems of overpopulation and hunger have been fragmented and confused, tangled in a complicated web of bureaucracies. In a report released last July, the Republican minority staff of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, found that no single agency has final authority for U.S. participation in the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization and the world-wide attempt to conquer hunger. Senator Charles Percy, ranking Republican committee member, said U.S. resources that are "spent in a haphazard and uncoordinated way would appear...
...rate of population growth, poverty has come to mean a high birth rate in most third world countries. The United Nations predicts that in the next thirty years the earth's population will probably double, with 3.5 million more people living on the face of the globe. And world hunger will be increasingly prevalent as more hands grasp for food...
...most vital resources, just how much population growth the available water can sustain. As the U.S. faced what scientists termed the most serious drought conditions anywhere on the globe, a world perennially short of food might not be able to look to America to ease its hunger. Domestic food prices seemed certain to increase, job layoffs could follow as water-and hydroelectric-hungry industries are forced to reduce their operations. Added to the effects of the East's frigid winter, the drought could pose new dangers of inflation and unemployment, threatening President Carter's economic stimulus and budget...
People in the West occasionally hear of the cruel conditions in Soviet labor camps: about prisoners being tortured by hunger and cold, about the denial of medical care to sick prisoners and about forced psychiatric treatment of perfectly sane people in mental hospitals. But very little is known about the frightening fate of political prisoners' families-of their wives and children and aged parents...
Greene has a way of decoding signals of despair in a man's face--the hunger to destroy or the wish to die. In Torrijo's "lines of weariness around the eyes," Greene sees what he calls a "charisma of desperation." It communicates an impatience with the inert diplomacy over the Canal issue, but also a desire to leave a mark on history. If he doesn't do so on the dotted line on the document that restores sovereignty over the waterway to Panama, Greene hints he plans to leave it in blood...