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...CARE World Hunger Fund began a program last week that will give Americans a chance to do their bit toward easing the famine that is killing thousands of people a day and causing half a billion to suffer from malnutrition around the world. Called the Empty Plate campaign, the plan asks Americans to give up, or reduce, one meal per week for the rest of the year and send the money saved to CARE...
...perception. The crisis so far is mostly one of statistics. Those Americans who lack basic food and shelter even now do so mostly from ignorance and mismanagement of the benefits available to them. Those around Washington who remember the bonus marchers of 1932 recall them as actually on a "hunger march." The men were destitute. Attorney Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran watched General Douglas MacArthur and his aide Dwight Eisenhower ride off to disperse this pitiful army on the Anacostia flats. New Dealer Abe Fortas came down as a kid lawyer out of Yale in the summer...
...stated that he will continue his present hunger strike until he dies or until he is transferred to a labor camp...
Moroz, arrested in 1970 on charges of antil-soviet propagands and agitation, has been on a hunger strike in Vladmir prison since July 1. He is protesting the charges on which he is imprisoned and inhuman treatment by prison suthorities...
This brings me to Burden's new "piece" (as such things are called). It consists of fasting. For one month he will lie on a triangular platform, built high up in a corner of the gallery, and take nothing but distilled water. You see, hunger is so rare in this land that it can be profitably exhibited. I should add that, doubtless to purify his meditations, the young sadhu is not actually on show. Nobody can talk to him, or even see him, because the platform is too high. In fact there is no way of being sure...