Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hunger induces women in the Third World [Dec. 22] to produce from eight to ten children with the assumption that only three will live to become breadwinners. The idea that the circle can be broken with family-planning measures is a fantasy of the rich world...
...food and hunger expert Lester R. Brown says, "The issue is no longer whether food represents power, but how that power will be used." Butz is admittedly a politician as well as an agricultural economist. He would use the power of food more aggressively to restrain the Soviet Union and increase American influence in ravaged areas...
...wife and mother, was made editor of the women's section. She turned its coverage from society-page sycophancy to provocative feature writing and investigative reporting. One Thanksgiving Day, for instance, she defied her readers' expectations by presenting to them the first installment of a series on "Hunger in Kentucky...
Denny and Jeanne Grindall, Presbyterians from Seattle, where Denny is a florist and nurseryman, found their call in their 50s on a 1968 vacation in Africa. Visiting some Masai nomads in Kenya, they were appalled at the disease, drought and hunger. "We knew what we had to do," says Denny Grindall. "God led us to this place." He studied up on engineering and put his new learning to work (along with quiet infusions of the family savings) in a succession of six-month stays in Kenya. The Grindalls have won the respect and affection of the Masai and changed their...
...slums of the Third World, a daily battle against hunger, disease and the elements is waged, and it is much the same in Rio's favelas as in Calcutta's bustees. The hopes and aspirations of the poor are almost pitifully simple: a living wage, a decent dwelling and a school for their children. And yet for so many these basic amenities are out of reach. TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn visited a cotton-growing region in the Nile delta some 80 miles southeast of Cairo, while Bernard Diederich talked to the inhabitants of a slum in Mexico City...