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...people rarely think of as part of the economy: ballet, sports, even religion. All involve the exchange of money for goods and services of a sort, and so all are feeling the effects of hard times-though in widely varying patterns of immunity and susceptibility to infection. Among the stricken...
...other major unions--40 years too late. But the raise does little for the 80,000 pensioners who could not vote on the contract and who will not benefit from pensions which were fattened for men retiring after 1976. These men are living on $150 a month; many are stricken with black lung; all deserve better pensions and medical benefits...
...each wasted day in Rome. Toward the end of the conference, former Bangladesh Food Minister Amirul Islam tried desperately to focus the attention of the farsighted reformers on the immediacy of the task before them. At a press conference, Islam announced that 100,000 people in his impoverished, famine-stricken country had died in the previous six weeks, and that unless immediate emergency aid was provided, 1 million more will starve to death by the end of the year...
...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...
...even more difficult for urbanized Chadians to endure. When Tombalbaye decreed that high government officials, regardless of their religious beliefs, be among the first group of initiates, the Minister of Agriculture argued that the two-month program would interfere with his efforts to increase farm production in the drought-stricken country. The Education Minister also objected that the initiation of teachers would interrupt schooling. A seven-month delay was granted, but this July a thousand Chadian officials were sent south to Yondo camps...