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...nearly three times as quickly, from an estimated 350 million to 470 million. Of the 29 countries classified by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as suffering from "abnormal food shortages"-a euphemism for widespread famine-23 are in Africa. West Africa still suffers from chronic drought, but the deadly hunger there has been brought under control with emergency food supplies from developed nations. But now famine has struck again, this time in East Africa. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White reports...
Christmas trees. When yellow grit from Nebraska sifted through the White House doors during the Dust Bowl years, F.D.R. became an avid student of the causes of the drought and possible defenses against the blowing topsoil. Lyndon Johnson used to tell how he won Roosevelt's approval for a dam on the lower Colorado River by enticing the President with pictures of various other dams, a subject dear to Roosevelt's heart...
...should be made up by bumper crops expected in Oklahoma, Texas and the Plains states. Though wheat prices rose a bit on the Chicago Board of Trade last week, at a time when they normally would be falling, traders were worried not about the St. Helens eruption but about drought in North Dakota...
...current recession shaping up as a regional rather than a national phenomenon, the real suffering is largely limited to a crescent encompassing the aging industrial cities tied to the auto industry -Pittsburgh, Detroit and Chicago-plus many of the farm states. Farmers are suffering from the ancient miseries of drought and locusts in addition to the more modern plagues of low commodity prices and high interest rates. The situation is particularly grim in the Dakotas and Minnesota, where spring wheat is coming up brown for lack of rain...
Predun chose Harvard and ushered in a new era of credibility to the developing program. His arrival in the fall of 1976 signaled the end of a drought which had left the Crimson without a highly touted lacrosse recruit since the late sixties...