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...Kuwaitis by leasing them three tankers last March. While the Administration insists it is still neutral in the 6 1/2-year war between Iran and Iraq, Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Armitage said, "We can't stand to see Iraq defeated. That specter would lead to instability from Marrakesh to Bangladesh...
Just four years after Kamal and Nazir Ahmad created the Overseas Development Network (ODN), the group has chapters at 40 colleges and more than 600 student volunteers. ODN has raised over $300,000 to sponsor, among other things, internship programs in Appalachia, India and Bangladesh...
...September five students flew to Bangladesh, where they are spending six months visiting development groups around the capital city of Dacca. The program, which includes four Harvard undergraduates, is supported by ODN. And this past month, six more students left for Tamil Nadu, a province in southern India, to help with local projects organized by two Indian development agencies...
...hope was that as Americans became involved, they would not only learn more about the Third World, they would learn more about themselves and the U.S.," says Kamal Ahmad '87-'88, a native of Bangladesh. "If Americans try to look at faraway countries and then turn around to look at themselves, they will see a lot more...
Harvard also has a local ODN chapter--the Harvard-Radcliffe International Development Forum (HRIDF)--with 15 student volunteers. Each of ODN's campus branches sponsor a grassroots community project in various parts of the developing world. The HRIDF is providing funds for a project in Bangladesh with money it raised in a dining hall fast...