Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resources and are capable of the task. It is not a question of whether we can wipe out hunger, but when, or if we want to . . . In Massachusetts no one cares. Maurice Donabue, the one man who supported action, no longer holds a state office. "Biggest problem to date, Mayer says, has been keeping the hunger issue non-partisan. He does not consider himself part of the Nixon Administration and says, "The minute hunger becomes a political issue we are dead...
Because of World War II and his frontline service in the French Army, Mayer leaned to act decisively. Today Jean Mayer is a decisive man. The day I visited him, Mayer woke up at 4:30 a. m. to watch the funeral of DeGaulle on television. He said, "When I was with DeGaulle in London in 1942, it was clear to me and clear to everyone else there except the American government that De Gaulle was the only man who could lead France when we returned." Mayer, however, has no particular reverence for his former boss De Gaulle...
...counts his wife and numerous in-laws as Harvard alumni. His father lectured one year at the School of Public Health. His sister, who also attended the School of Public Health, has studied children's growth patterns exclusively, in Africa, and now teaches in France. Three of Jean Mayer's children have been to Harvard, one is now at Yale, and ten-year-old Pierre goes to The Shady Hill School in Cambridge and is bored by the idea of breakfast at the White House...
LAST summer at the Swedish Nutrition Council meetings in Stockholm, Dr. Mayer proposed that starvation be banned as a means of warfare. "Bacteriological warfare," he says, "was outlawed in the 1920's because it was argued that germ warfare was indiscriminate in its effects on women and children. Actually starvation is not just indiscriminate, but it only affects women, children, and the infirm. Fighting men never starve because they can seize supplies in the territory they patrol." The Swedish government has asked the United Nations General Assembly to act on this ban as well as Mayer's proposal to start...
Remembering his trips to Biafra in 1968, Dr. Mayer says, "There is invariably utter chaos in relief operations. Although a disaster strikes at least once every year, the relief organization in each case is dealing with tragedy for the first time. Political complications hamper American Red Cross operations, and the International Red Cross, which is a Swiss organization, is not equipped to provide massive aid. The Pakistani government," he says, "is the greatest ob-stacle to the East Pakistan relief operations. The United States, even if it wants to, can not send massive relief for political reasons. Reading between...