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...present population explosion started after the second World War, with the advent of more advanced medical treatments and more extensive public health programs, both of which lowered death rates, said William Alfonso, Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy in the School of Public Health...
...although overpopulation is a major worry, Alfonso said, the World Population's figures are somewhat misleading...
...They might be off not by a day or a week, but by a year or three years," he said. "It's a publicity stunt. They're trying to make vivid" the population problem, Alfonso said, adding that the five billion figure is an "artificial fact...
Contra leaders say the assistance will at last allow them to map out a plausible military strategy. "We can program ahead for the next 16 to 17 months," said Alfonso Robelo, one of the three top rebel political chiefs who lead the United Nicaraguan Opposition. "For the first time we can count on more permanent support." But the military aid will also put pressure on the contras to show some results in Nicaragua. Insisted Louisiana Democrat and Contra Backer Buddy Roemer: "There will be no blank checks for the contras...
...their "cia-imposed leadership." He says that it is resented by the combat troops, considered "hostile to democracy" and is damaging to the unity of the various contra factions. He believes that if the contras unite under a common political banner, with such respected democrats as Arturo Cruz and Alfonso Robelo at the top, Nicaraguans and Americans will support the rebels as a legitimate democratic resistance force...