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...commission, chaired by Sol Linowitz, 66, now Special Ambassador to the Middle East, presents both distressing findings and challenging recommendations. The hunger problem today is vastly different from that of the past, when recurrent famines killed millions. Now there is so little food in so many parts of the world, year after year, that fully 25% of the globe's population is hungry or undernourished, and one person in eight suffers from debilitating malnutrition. Children under five make up over half of the world's malnourished population...
...Cutler and Senior Adviser Hedley Donovan urged Carter to seek help from the nation's veteran foreign-policy makers. Fifteen prominent men, including Presidential Troubleshooter Clark Clifford, former Secretaries of State Dean Rusk and Henry Kissinger, former Under Secretary of State George Ball and Panama Canal Negotiator Sol Linowitz, were summoned to the White House. First, they were given an intelligence briefing that established the existence of the Soviet brigade. It comprised 2,600 soldiers assigned to two garrisons under the command of a Soviet army colonel. The unit was equipped with 40 tanks, 60 armored personnel carriers...
...were called by Carter aides, got to work almost immediately. Headed by Clark Clifford, the group also included John McCone, McGeorge Bundy and John McCloy, all of whom served as advisers to Kennedy and Johnson; David Packard of the Nixon Administration; Brent Scowcroft of the Ford Administration; and Sol Linowitz, a longtime presidential consultant who most recently was chief negotiator of the Panama Canal treaties...
Carter had considered others for the post, including former Iowa Senator Dick Clark, former Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, Panama Canal Negotiator Sol Linowitz and Ambassador to China Leonard Woodcock. But McHenry had the advantage of being a black as well as having the support of Young. His main disadvantage was that he was not well known. Then the Soviets came to his assistance when they tried to rush Ballerina Ludmila Vlasova out of the U.S. McHenry was put in charge of the laborious negotiations with the Soviets at Kennedy Airport. Deputy White House Press Secretary Rex Granum said that...
...Carter had been repeatedly told at Camp David that he needed someone of stature at the White House who had close contacts in top intellectual, political, diplomatic and financial circles. Donovan, who has known Carter since he was Governor of Georgia, was suggested for such a role by Sol Linowitz, chief U.S. negotiator of the Panama Canal treaties (and a member of Time Inc.'s board). After a long talk with Carter at the White House, several calls from other Administration officials, and two days of personal deliberation, Donovan decided to accept...