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Located on the southern edge of the Sahara, it is one of the poorest countries in Africa, with a per capita income of $210 a year. Its 6.7 million people have been suffering from recurring drought that has caused widespread hardship and political instability. This month Upper Volta shed the name that the French bequeathed along with independence 24 years ago. President Thomas Sankara, 34, who seized power last year, decreed that his country would hence forth be known as Burkina Faso...
...Third World agriculture, owing in part to rural overpopulation and economic distortions caused by efforts to palliate the rising tide of urban consumers. In such countries as Tanzania and India, where people depend on firewood for fuel, deforestation is damaging flood control, speeding erosion and adding to the hardship of merely staying alive. Citing the example of China, McNamara warns that rapid population growth may also lead to greater and more coercive state intrusions into private life, ranging from forced sterilization to restrictions on freedom of movement...
...hunger, widespread poverty and dangerous political instability. He could cite some disturbing precedents. Jamaica's last two elections, in 1980 and 1983, were precipitated by IMF-imposed austerity. Haiti's long-suffering populace, the hemisphere's poorest, erupted in riots last month after years of hardship under fund programs...
...next 12 years the College endured great financial hardship. It did secure a few large donations, most notably John Harvard's, but it also depended on the help of the legislature, which granted Harvard the revenues of the Boston-to-Charleston ferry and a special tax called the College Corne--Each New England family was required to donate a peck of wheat for the College's support...
...closing the Strait of Hormuz." Lloyd's denied the likelihood of such a cancellation. In any event, the world, and particularly the U.S., is nowhere near as dependent on gulf oil as it was ten or even five years ago. But a cutoff would still work a considerable hardship on Japan and several West European nations, and would undoubtedly lead to a sharp, if temporary, rise in the worldwide price...