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Approximately 80 people rallied last night at Burr Hall to protest the 14 year incarceration of Ukrainian dissident Valentyn Moroz on the 148th day of his voluntary hunger strike in Vladimir Prison outside Moscow...
Moroz began his voluntary hunger strike in July when he found brain-damaging drugs were being mixed with his food, he how weighs 90 pounds and is suffering from a blood and liver ailment, the committee reported last night...
...largest in history; the developing nations' deficit of $20 billion is primarily caused by oil prices; financial institutions have been badly strained by the "abrupt and artificially sustained" price rise. "If current economic trends continue," Kissinger warned, "we face further and mounting worldwide shortages, unemployment, poverty and hunger . . . Democratic societies could become vulnerable to extremist pressures from right or left to a degree not experienced since...
...final hours the delegates also managed to make some potentially significant recommendations on a system of world food reserves; the details are to be worked out in future meetings. They agreed in general terms to establish a permanent gram stockpile to help hunger-stricken areas in future emergencies. In a gesture that was strongly supported by the U.S. delegation, wealthy countries were called on to supply 10 million tons of grain to food-short areas for each of the next three years, until the permanent stockpile can be built up. In addition, an early warning system providing world crop information...
Your article further seems to assume that if the LDCs would learn to farm the way we do, the hunger problem would be solved. In fact, we are so profligate in our use of energy that we consume more calories of energy in input in our farming than the crops produce to be eaten...