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...resolution to restore the H2O allotment next year was introduced, provoking a three-hour committee debate, half serious, half silly. "Water is life," intoned Bernards Mudho of Kenya, but Maria Regina Serrao Emerson of Portugal called the debate "frivolous." At meeting's end, after Even Fontaine-Ortiz of Cuba facetiously noted that overtime pay for translators and guards had cost as much as any water saved, the resolution was referred to the General Assembly's plenary session, which tabled it without further thirst- inducing debate...
...other hand, consuming American pop is not necessarily a kind of pro- Americanism. The Rambo look is all the rage among guerrillas in Beirut. The Sandinistas are American baseball nuts. Says Peruvian Writer Augusto Ortiz de Zevallos: "You see Marxist-Leninists with T shirts that say COCA-COLA." In the view of Marc Pachter, a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, foreigners may turn to the left precisely because they like American pop so much. At least in Europe, argues Pachter, youthful political anti-Americanism is a way of "justifying their enormous thirst for American pop culture. As long as they...
Though much of his aid went to the seriously ill through major hospitals in the badly hit Tolima district, Melendez-Ortiz stressed the work done for the less seriously injured through large make-shift hospitals. "We set up campaign hospitals to give first aid to those people who were running away from their houses...
Because of the success Melendez-Ortiz had in setting up a delivery system, the Colombian government is going to follow his model in its National Hospital Delivery System...
...Melendez-Ortiz is now working on getting aid to Colombia for what he calls a "pre-emergency plan," because he says the American State Department is "pretty sure that another explosion will take place within the next week...