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...need to know and ponder the facts you present in such depth in your special section on the world food crisis [Nov. 11]. But I take issue with the crucial part entitled "What to Do: Costly Choices." You say, "The so-called less-developed countries will have to resist the temptation to blame the world's ills on the former colonial powers and the U.S." It is equally true that the U.S. and the former colonial powers will have to take much more seriously what the LDCs are saying...
...wealthy, food-surfeited citizen of the developed world. He must decide whether he has a moral obligation to feed those who are starving even if the food shortage in the poorest countries could have been prevented by population control. Morals aside, out of sheer self-interest he must ponder whether the hungry half-billion will allow him to live peacefully, enjoying his wealth. He must realize that there is the chance that the impoverished might resort to war to take his wealth and food. Economist Robert Heilbroner notes that even hungry, poor states might soon get the nuclear arms with...
...this roster of natural disasters an omen of worse weather to come? The forecasters can only guess. Even the most skilled meteorologists admit that theirs is one of the least exact sciences. But as they ponder the earth's current erratic weather and study their steadily increasing store of knowledge about past climate, more and more scientists are raising storm warnings for the future. At the very least, they foresee troublesome changes in global temperature and rainfall patterns that could seriously jeopardize the earth's ability to feed itself...
Nixon rose early Thursday, going by himself to the Lincoln Sitting Room to ponder and plan his day. He met later with his chief of staff, General Alexander Haig, and at 11 a.m. he called in his successor, Gerald Ford, for a private talk that lasted an hour and ten minutes. "The President asked the Vice President to come over this morning for a private meeting," Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren announced to newsmen shortly before the two sat down together. "And that is all the information I have at this moment." It was information enough, however, to alert reporters...
...shit," canceled the tour and summoned his private jet. Putting down at Sydney, Frank learned that airport refuelers refused to handle his plane. Tense negotiations resulted in a statement of mutual regret, and all but one of the remaining concerts were rescheduled. Not, however, before Frankie had time to ponder just what it means to become an Ugly American...