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Only slightly less serious are the situations in Honduras, Burma, Burundi, Rwanda, the Sudan and Yemen. Additionally, poor harvests threaten food supplies in Nepal, Somalia, Tanzania, Zambia and even the Philippines and Mexico. In Haiti, because of disregard for soil conservation, hundreds of thousands of subsistence farmers face starvation. Whole families are often so hungry that they do not wait for mangoes to ripen; they boil the green fruit...
...Burundi is a land of luxuriant beauty and berserk violence, torn apart by one of those tribal conflicts that are so elusive to an outsider's understanding. Determined to uphold a centuries-old feudal hegemony over 3,000,000 Hutu tribesmen, the well-armed Tutsi overlords, who number no more than 600,000, unleashed a violent pogrom last year. At least 80,000-and perhaps as many as 250,000-Hutus were killed. In May this year the slaughter revived in the southeastern part of the landlocked hill country (area: 10,747 sq. mi., smaller than Belgium). The latest...
...Tutsis seem to be creating a no man's land along the Tanzanian border to prevent further attacks. Although Burundi is one of Africa's most overcrowded countries, with a population of 325 persons per square mile, I saw almost no one during many miles of driving in the countryside. Every dwelling has been abandoned or burned down. Fields of coffee, cotton and beans stand overgrown. At Nyanza Lac, a once-bustling village of 3,000 people on Burundi's Lake Tanganyika, the only inhabitants are wild dogs...
...Burundi's handsome Tutsi President Colonel Michel Micombero, 33, who came to power seven years ago by ousting the decadent royal clan, denies any intent to exterminate the Hutus. He likes to point out that many of them belong to his Uprona Party, and claims that much of the killing has resulted from invasion attempts by Hutus living in exile in Tanzania. Seated in the summer house of his lakeside palace while two crested cranes paced back and forth in a nearby cage, Micombero explained: "Just as in the U.S. and most other countries, it is the political majority...
Indeed, the U.S. is increasingly at odds with the General Assembly's majority. This year it voted for only a few resolutions, including one to reduce its own budget contribution from 31% to 25% of the total. By comparison, such African states as Zambia and Burundi voted with the majority 92% of the time, according to the World Association of World Federalists, while Nigeria and Yugoslavia scored 85% and the Soviet Union 60%. The U.S. withheld support from 15 out of 20 key resolutions. It refused to support a proposal that the Indian Ocean be declared off limits...