Word: reliefs
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...country for the second year running. Total damage for natural disasters in 1973 exceeded $1.2 billion. Federal funds ex pended to assist local governments and citizens in the 3 1 states plagued with nat ural disasters came to an estimated $750 million, and 75,000 families received direct relief. It was scant consolation that the year before, 48 major disasters cost $3.5 billion in damages, making disaster relief expenditures for the past two years more than the amount expended for the preceding decade...
Flooding created most of the need for disaster relief last year, and the ominous finding is that the Mississippi River system is in worse condition now than it was a year ago. Rainfall through the entire drainage area of the river is now 15% to 75% above normal. Unless the rain and snow ease off in the Mid west, 1974 could bring on disasters even worse than those...
Swollen Stomachs. The prognosis for Ethiopia and the sub-Saharan countries is for an equally grim and dry new year. The little rain that did fall this year came late and ended early, preventing a full fall harvest of millet and sorghum that might have saved some lives Relief efforts are continuing, and in Ethiopia some food is belatedly getting to the impoverished northern provinces But in the refugee camps thousands of children with matchstick legs, protruding ribs and swollen stomachs continue to die of malnutrition. A new woe was added last week when swarms of locusts began eating their...
...people in Mass Hall must have breathed a sigh of relief. For almost two years environmentalists had been asking Harvard to voice opposition to a power plant proposed by Consolidated Edison for Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y., and for two years the University had been avoiding the move...
...nations that support Israel. Some subtle variations were voted, however. Rhodesia, South Africa and Portugal were added to the list of embargoed nations, which also includes The Netherlands and the U.S. Japan and the Philippines were spared a further 5% production cut. European nations, except The Netherlands, were promised relief from scheduled cutbacks so long as they continued to maintain a pro-Arab line...