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Today, famine is rampant in Ethiopia, the African nations of the Sahel (Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Upper Volta), Gambia and in areas of Tanzania and Kenya. Near famine also plagues Bolivia, Syria, Yemen and Nigeria. One poor harvest could bring massive hunger to India, the Sudan, Guyana, Somalia, Guinea and Zaire. In two dozen other nations, the populace faces chronic food shortages. Among them: Bangladesh, Iran, Indonesia, the Philippines and Haiti...
...threatened by starvation. Not even a good rainfall this season can end the tragedy, so wasted is the land and so slight the prospect of a bountiful harvest. Worst hit are Ethiopia and the six nations of the arid Sahel (Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Upper Volta, Niger and Chad...
Sahel's principal rivers, the Senegal and the Niger, have fallen to their lowest levels since the start of the century. Lake Chad has evaporated to one-third its normal size and has actually separated into four parts. The fishing village of Bol, once a lakeside settlement, today looks out on a vast wasteland of parched scrubgrass stretching 18 miles to the water. The lake's fish catch has been halved, creating a protein deficiency that aggravates an already short supply of grains. In northern Chad, nomads are eating boiled tree bark and roots...
...place is too remote. After 200 letters went out to Yankton, S. Dak., for Basketball Player Chad Nelson, some recruiters traveled there four or five times to make their pitch. Moses Malone's home in Petersburg has become a clearinghouse for college coaches, and Jerry Eckwood played one of his last football games in Brinkley with 50 recruiters cheering...
...some food is belatedly getting to the impoverished northern provinces But in the refugee camps thousands of children with matchstick legs, protruding ribs and swollen stomachs continue to die of malnutrition. A new woe was added last week when swarms of locusts began eating their way through much of Chad and northern Nigeria, reducing the meager supply of food still further...