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...been apparent to food experts since last winter, Haiti's President for Life Jean-Claude Duvalier, 23, formally declared a food emergency only six weeks ago. Belatedly the government has provided a few thousand dollars to charter trucks carrying food over washboard-rough back roads to the stricken areas. The current relief effort has been fairly well coordinated, in part because various U.S. agencies were already at work in Haiti when the food emergency was declared. The distribution program, which is being administered by CARE, is intended to feed 120,000 people until the end of the summer, when...
...Panic-Stricken. In financially troubled New York City, where the education budget has been cut almost $270 million, the teacher firings will be the first since the Depression. Says Ronald Jones, a teacher at P.S. 10: "Teachers on the bottom of the list are panic-stricken, bewildered; they can't believe it. They're hoping that some guy will come out of the sky with the money." School Chancellor Irving Anker predicts that the firings will result in many classes having more than 40 pupils in September-compared with the previous average of less than...
...case grew out of Mrs. Gandhi's campaign four years ago for her parliamentary seat in Rae Bareli, her home district, in the poverty-stricken state of Uttar Pradesh, 300 miles southeast of New Delhi. She won a landslide victory -183,000 votes to 71,000 for her opponent, socialist Raj Narain. Barely a month after the election, Narain, 58, an old and bitter foe of Mrs. Gandhi and her late father, Jawaharlal Nehru, went to court and charged that Mrs. Gandhi and her staff, in violation of India's equivalent of the U.S.'s Hatch...
...Ford kept up his barrage of phone calls. His intensity, the fact that he felt strongly enough to call member after member, had a powerful effect. Just as the House vote was about to begin, Ford reached Maine's William Cohen, a moderate Republican whose recession-stricken state badly needs new jobs. "Bill," Ford said, "this is going to be a tough vote. Can you possibly see your way to help out?" "It's a tough vote for me," Cohen responded. "I'll think about what you said in the next 15 minutes." Finally Cohen voted against...
...annually for his first 20 years of retirement. Apparently Namath decided working behind proven blockers on a solid franchise in publicity-conscious New York was worth more than the Wind's airy millions. If he remains as the Jets superstar quarterback, he will not be poverty stricken. Their offer: a $1 million, three-year contract...