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Saturday, July 7, prominent citizens: former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford; John Gardner, ex-chairman of Common Cause; the Rev. Jesse Jackson, director of Operation PUSH; Lane Kirkland, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO; Sol Linowitz, lawyer and occasional ambassador-at large; Barbara Newell, president of Wellesley...
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...
Last week President Carter confronted the problem by naming a 20-member Commission on World Hunger. Said he: "We cannot have a peaceful and prosperous world if a large part of the world's people are at the edge of hunger." Chaired by former Panama Canal Negotiator Sol Linowitz, 64, the commission has a $3 million budget and a daunting task: to review existing studies on global food shortages, consult with international experts and recommend steps by mid-1979 that the U.S. and perhaps other nations can take to combat the problem...
...Linowitz regards the assignment as an engrossing challenge, even though Government bookshelves already hold countless copies of previous reports on hunger. Said he: "I told the President that I didn't want to be chairman of a commission that was going to produce another dust catcher. We are at a time in human history where we know what we have to know and have the resources to put an end to mass hunger by the end of this century...
...Linowitz has no illusions about the difficulties ahead. "Let's face it," he said. "Certain words evoke a glaze in people's eyes. When you say world hunger, you lose them. Not only is it regarded as an insoluble and intractable problem, but it also seems to be far removed." He was particularly impressed by President Carter's insistence that he would fight world hunger "as hard as possible." Linowitz has also been encouraged by the interest shown in the commission by many members of Congress and international agencies. Said Linowitz, echoing one of Carter...