Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were pouring in. A quartet of Soviet classical composers fired off a message to the White House prodding Carter to "urgently intervene to put an end to arbitrary action and ensure the release of Dean Reed." Reed helped the cause by refusing to post $300 bail, going on a hunger strike with some of his fellow prisoners and announcing, "I consider myself a political prisoner...
John Denver? Sol Linowitz? Thomas Wyman? President Carter's Commission on World Hunger [Oct. 16]? Bunk! It was Singer-Songwriter Harry Chapin, who is also a member of this commission, who lobbied religiously for more than two years until the reticent Congress and White House finally agreed to its legal creation. If anyone is a prime mover in this effort...
Community work is nothing new to Howard, who organized hunger walks in high school and directed Harvard's big sister program for needy Cambridge youth...
John P. Catalini, Boston area coordinator for Oxfam, estimated yesterday that 70 per cent of the approximately $1800 Harvard will contribute to Oxfam will go directly in Oxfam project work around the world. The remaining 30 per cent will be spent in promotional campaigns to encourage awareness of world hunger...
Anne A. Maccoby '82 said yesterday she is participating in the fast because, "It is a good thing to feel what hunger is, to understand it. The distribution of food throughout the world is so unfair...