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...West African famine is striking worst in Ethiopia, and the Ethiopian government has deliberately refused to recognize the severity of the crisis until the past few weeks, Dr. Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition at the School of Public Health, said yesterday...
...Ethiopia's government has acted as if there was no crisis at all by trying to hide the problem," Mayer said. "The governor of the worst-hit province failed to even report the food shortage...
Ever since Kirk Kerkorian bought control of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., four years ago, the airline pilot-turned-Las Vegas financier has been ordering the liquidation of assets to help make ends meet. Last week Kerkorian lost what the money men would call a highly visible asset: James T. Aubrey Jr., MGM's $208,000-a-year president. Aubrey, 54, will be replaced as president by Frank E. Rosenfelt, 51, a longtime MGM executive, and as chief executive by Kerkorian himself...
...statement--read to the Commission on Social Progress and Human Rights by the Catholic leftist Rev. Paul Mayer--criticized the Soviet government for "a campaign to silence not only your intellectuals, but any Soviet citizens who seek to express their rights...
Other critics assail McDonald's for blighting the land architecturally (under pressure from zoning authorities, the chain is rapidly switching from its original garish, candy-striped restaurant design to a more subdued brown brick configuration) and for allegedly sabotaging American nutrition. Harvard Nutritionist Jean Mayer warns that a steady diet of McDonald's fare and nothing else could give a customer scurvy because it would lack sufficient vitamin C. Mayer also says that the menu provides large amounts of fats and calories (557 for a Big Mac, 317 for a chocolate shake, 215 for a small order...