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...program to make the country of 12 million people less dependent on imported grain. Grandly named the Great Agricultural Offensive for Food and Abundance, or GOANA, policymakers aimed to boost local agricultural production by subsidizing seeds, doling out farm implements and speeding up irrigation investments. The program convinced Ngor Sarr, a subsistence farmer in the region of Fatick in western Senegal, and the other members of his agricultural cooperative to expand their paddy fields last year. Though the seeds he received through GOANA weren't of top quality, leading to mediocre yields - a common problem with the program, critics contend...
...infection rates are now instituting similar programs. But a number of Green’s colleagues do not completely agree with his conclusions. “Right now condoms are the most effective means we have available for preventing the spread of HIV,” said Abdoulaye Dieng Sarr, a senior research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health. But Sarr added that AIDS workers in Africa should continue to do everything they can to slow the spread of HIV—both distributing condoms and promoting faithful partnerships. Green insisted that he is not against condom...
Super Tuesday's claim to Southern supremacy rested on the assumption that there would be a Southern candidate to lead the charge. But Sarr Nunn balked at the opportunity, and so did former Virginia Governor Charles Robb. That left Albert Gore '69, Harvard overseer, prep-school graduate to carry the mantle. But the Eastern-educated senator has had his troubles convincing voters that he's a good ole' boy who was brought up on a pig farm in Tennessee...
...Papen. Born in 1879 at Werl in Prussia, Franz von Papen became a "career officer'' in the Imperial German Army. He married the niece of a French Marquis from the Sarr Basin (then German, now governed by a League of Nations commission). From his wife the Prussian officer learned to speak almost perfect French. In Washington, where von Papen was German Military Attache when the War opened, both she and he were popular...
...Rhine and the Sarr," January...
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