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Monday night, CHUL voted by a lopsided majority of 17-2, with four abstentions, to support the boycott. The movement protests Nestle's practice of supplying Third-World mothers with infant formula which they later find unaffordable or mix with bad water, causing malnutrition in their children...
...Companies are presently selling nuclear reactors to third world countries, and "General Electric has made these things and they have to make a profit, so they sell them to third-world countries," she said...
...more third-world countries that get nuclear power, the more chance there is of nuclear war," she concluded...
...that third world countries can build up their economies and serve as markets for U.S. goods. Domestic policies are predicated on a demand that the U.S. build up its technological production capacity, thus increasing the number of jobs available and avoiding what their Massachusetts candidate for senate calls "genocidal third-world labor-intensive" activities...
...warm words largely obscured the apprehension with which Moscow is believed to have viewed recent events in India, the third-world state in which the Soviets have the greatest economic, political and ideological investment. The strengthening of Mrs. Gandhi's government during the emergency, for instance, has reduced her dependence on the Moscow-lining Communist Party of India. The government's crackdown on some trade union groups, and its efforts to shore up the long-neglected private sector of the Indian economy, have struck the Soviets as downright ominous -as has the dramatic political emergence of Mrs. Gandhi...