Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This Sunday, the Krokodiloes will join a capella groups from Yale and Princeton to sing at a benefit concert at Carnegie Hall to celebrate World Food Day, with the proceeds going to the Interfaith Hunger Appeal, a group committed to providing food to the world's poor. The show, which will be emceed by Tony Randall, has already sold out the 2500-seat auditorium, says Jan C. Larsen '89, general manager of the Kroks...
...squatters' camps, destroying thousands of homes. Farther north, whole villages were submerged. In the famine-stricken south, roads and rail lines were swamped, preventing relief shipments from getting through. According to aid officials, more than a hundred people starve to death every day. Many more are so weak from hunger they can barely crawl...
...Already, experts estimate that as many as five hundred thousand new cases of diarrhea are occurring each day, most of them caused by polluted drinking water. Dysentery and perhaps cholera may soon follow. Because the flood has destroyed at least a quarter of this year's food crops, widespread hunger and perhaps pockets of starvation are anticipated...
...furor has put chemical companies on the defensive as well. The Chavez hunger strike, accompanied by a boycott of California grapes and several supermarket chains, was partly inspired by an incident last year in which 75 farmworkers harvesting grapes sprayed with the insecticide Zolone came down with flulike symptoms. Under pressure from state agriculture officials, the chemical's manufacturer, Rhone-Poulenc, stopped selling the substance to grape growers. This year Rhone-Poulenc is carrying out a controversial test in which it paid 25 college students as much as $1,500 for one week to harvest a central California vineyard that...
...world's most repressive and eccentric regimes, a situation that is worsening as Ceausescu imposes ever greater privations on his people while indulging his wild-eyed ambitions. A reckless export drive has stripped grocery shelves of staples, making Rumania the only country in Europe where hunger is widespread and malnutrition on the rise. As beggars panhandle on Bucharest's crumbling sidewalks, welding torches glow night and day at the site of a monumental government complex, part of a multibillion-dollar "modernization" program that has already flattened almost half the capital's centuries-old historic district. In the meantime, Ceausescu feeds...