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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time the 1,200 delegates from more than 130 countries completed their first seven days of talks at the World Food Conference in Rome, another 10,000 lives were lost to famine in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In the same period, another 1.4 million children were born into a world that already contains nearly half a billion starving people. In the sobering context of these statistics, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger delivered a keynote address that he considered one of the most important speeches of his career. History may herald the speech as signaling the start...
...involved loans totaling $84,000 in January and April 1957 to Robert B. Anderson, the former Navy Secretary, who at the time was a private businessman. Rockefeller loaned the money to Anderson to buy stock in the International Basic Economy Corp., a Rockefeller-controlled company with large investments in Latin America. According to Anderson, he sold the IBEC stock back to Rockefeller on June 6, 1957, at the price he had paid for it, after President Eisenhower had picked Anderson to become Secretary of the Treasury. Said Anderson last week: "It was just a plain stock purchase." However, congressional investigators...
...Rabat that his nation would shortly make a unilateral price cut of less than 10%; officially, the Saudis denied the report. In any case, the U.S. is pleased to welcome Mexico to the ranks of oil exporters. Though Mexico will sell some of its exported oil to other Latin American countries, most will go to the U.S., which will be happy to buy it. It would be a relatively safe and geographically close substitute for some of the Arab oil imports that could be cut off at any time...
Nearly half a billion people are suffering from some form of hunger; 10,000 of them die of starvation each week in Africa, Asia and Latin America. There are all too familiar severe shortages of food in the sub-Saharan Sahelian countries of Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Upper Volta and Niger; also in Ethiopia, northeastern Brazil, India and Bangladesh. India alone needs 8 to 10 million tons of food this year from outside sources, or else as many as 30 million people might starve...
...Bucharest last August. Advocates of population control were sometimes heckled. Ridicule was heaped upon proposals from the developed countries-led by the U.S.-that called for setting up family-planning programs in underdeveloped nations and reducing the world's birth rate from 2% now to 1.7% by 1985. Latin American delegates claimed that overpopulation was a myth invented by the rich to exploit the poor. China's representative, Huang Shu-tse, declared: "The large population of the Third World is an important condition for the fight against imperialism." No wonder that one delegate from a sparsely populated nation...