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More than 2500 undergraduates have signed up to skip dinner tonight to help the Harvard Hunger Action Committee (HAC) and the Harvard and Radcliffe International Development Forum (IDF) raise money for the construction of a health clinic and dispensary in Kenya...
...been really pleased with the joint effort of the members of each committee and the student body," Doug W. Marx '90 said. Only 1800 students participated in a similar fast last year, said Marx, who is a leader of the HAC...
Both IDF and HAC are working under the Overseas Development Network (ODN), an international charitable organization founded by a Harvard student and based in Cambridge that frequently coordinates such activities. Bike Aid, another ODN program, will match the amount the fast raises dollar for dollar. Members of Bike Aid, including several Harvard students, participate in a summer-long ride across the country each year, and last year raised over $200,000, an official at ODN said yesterday...
...clinic will provide medicine and education to residents of Kapchelal Village, which is located in one of the less developed regions of Kenya, organizers said. It will focus on malnutrition and parasitic diseases. HAC is sponsoring the project because these issues are directly related to hunger in Africa, Marx said...
Even as Thieu spoke, 45 American helicopters were flapping into Laos for what he called a "new-type operation": a quick raid by ARVN Hac Bao (Black Panther) commandos about five miles across the border into the Communist depot known as Base Area 611. During their 24 hours on the ground, the Panthers killed just one North Vietnamese and found little in the way of enemy supplies. Their main mission seemed to be to let Hanoi know that its Laotian supply lines would never again be safe and to support Thieu's claim that Lam Son was "still going...