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...quite a bit more than the 5% that they now give to underwrite those groups. The producers have been increasing their foreign aid fairly rapidly, but they probably should give much more in grants, low-interest loans and concessionary prices to the neediest countries. Last year OPEC members made aid commitments totaling $9.6 billion and actually disbursed $2.6 billion in gifts, concessionary loans and other aid?roughly half of it to Egypt, Syria and Jordan...
Donkey Caravans. With almost all of the drought area far away from the few railways, navigable rivers and paved roads, relief trucks have had to crawl along sand and dirt paths in desert heat. In Ethiopia, some of the neediest areas are so deep in the countryside that only caravans of donkeys and camels have been able to reach them...
...NATIONAL MIME THEATER'S director, Kenyon Martin, is doing a benefit for the 700 neediest Boston families the Salvation Army can find. They say Kenyon Martin is one of the few pure classical mimists in the United States. I wouldn't know, but it sounds like a reasonable enough cause. 1 p.m. Saturday, they didn't tell me where...
...program poses some difficult questions. For example, only those who hold jobs would be eligible for the program. Thus participation would be denied to the neediest citizens, and there are a lot of them; the island's jobless rate is about 12%. Still Ferre's recommendation is a bold call for action in meeting Puerto Rico's social and economic needs...
Five of the reservation's neediest families were chosen at random for the hous es. Once selected, however, the families had to be talked into accepting the new homes. One reason for their reluctance was that the relatively luxurious housing is bound to cause jealousy and antagonism on the part of the other 45 families. Besides, without electricity and with a constant firewood shortage, the dwellings will be impossible to heat...