Word: problems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem is age-old and worldwide, but it has a new urgency. How hunger is conquered or left to spread will do nothing less than shape U.S. security and economic health in the future. So declares the 20-member Commission on World Hunger in a sobering report that will be presented this week to President Carter...
...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...
Both political and moral will are required to solve the problem. Says the report: "The quantities of food and money needed to eliminate hunger are very small in relation to available global resources." As a first step, the commission recommends that the U.S. make the elimination of hunger "the primary focus of its relationships with the developing countries for the decade of the 1980s," and contends that the country has a moral obligation...
...signs that they must be taken down on Fridays and erected again on Mondays to keep them from being ripped off. The town has even taken out a copyright and plans to mass-produce the emblems on poster board at $15 a pair. Deerfield has just one more problem to solve. The congestion around the station these days is terrible...
Rules are rules in Tennessee. When it came time to elect the mayor in Morrison, a hamlet of 547 people, no one wanted to run, but the county election commission insisted that an election be held anyway. No candidate emerged, but that was no problem: 43 out of 49 Morrison voters who showed up simply wrote the name of incumbent Mayor Harris Jacobs Jr. on the blank ballots. "We're not really backward or illiterate," explains Jacobs, a supervisor at an Air Force test facility who has served by default since 1969. "This is a nice little town with...