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...United Nations warned that a severe food shortage in North Korea this winter endangers more than 10% of the country's 23 million people, based on firsthand observations made by U.N. workers in December. Pyongyang's strict system of food rationing has been further tightened to cope with an expected shortfall of more than 3.5 million tons of grain...
...trying to find a way to cope with five of us in the room and not six of us," he added...
...there, then I will have done my small part to help them achieve a better life." But the march has convinced Nelson that he needs to do more. By the end of the school year, he intends to start a program designed to help inner-city children cope with urban pressures...
...remarks last week sent another shudder through a nation already coping--or more precisely, failing to cope--with the renewed divisions triggered by the Simpson verdict. And they added to the dilemma of black leaders who for weeks have been wrestling with the decision of whether to march. Representatives Gary Franks of Connecticut and Charles Rangel of New York, along with the leadership of the N.A.A.C.P., announced that they could not join Farrakhan no matter how laudable the event's goals, while some women's organizations raised objections to Farrakhan's exclusion of females. Said former Black Panther Angela Davis...
Between the central U.N. and the agencies, examples of misused funds are all too easy to find. Last year the UNICEF office in Kenya had to be greatly expanded to cope with a sudden flood of refugees from Somalia and from a local drought. The agency pumped in $37 million, of which $10 million was found by a later audit to have been unaccounted for. During the height of the U.N. intervention in Somalia, U.N. agencies were spending $1 million a day to maintain their peacekeeping operations in the country, much of it devoted to elaborate support facilities in Mogadishu...