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Overpopulation is a major cause of the staggering problems of the Third World. While a high standard of living coincides with a low rate of population growth, poverty has come to mean a high birth rate in most third world countries. The United Nations predicts that in the next thirty years the earth's population will probably double, with 3.5 million more people living on the face of the globe. And world hunger will be increasingly prevalent as more hands grasp for food...
...solve the world food problem is population control. As of now the world expenditures for population control only amount to about $3 billion as opposed to $300 billion for armaments and defense. But simply throwing money at a problem will not produce the solution. National leadership and an adequate standard of living are both crucial to successful population control. And again the impetus for population control must come from within the developing nation. In most third world countries, there is a severe maldistribution of wealth; 3 or 4 per cent of the population control most of the money and power...
...coming years the developed world and the United States, those nations where a high standard of living is followed by low birth rate, will have a responsibility to help pull the Third Worldout of its morass. But ultimately the conquest of over-population and hunger must take place in the poor nations themselves...
Phil Sraiman and Steve Hollis start things rolling at Sword-in-the-Stone (523-9188) tonight, both with traditional folk on acoustic guitar. Friday you got Linda Long doing folk and pop and Rodney Mashia playing original folk on flute and guitar. Saturday Jeff Brodsky plays standard acoustic folk, followed by the B Natural Boys with--yeeeeeeehaaaaw!--country and western. (They play some bluegrass, too.) Sunday and Tuesday it's an open stage; Sword is closed Mondays...
Munch said that in the opinion of his daughter's Denver doctors the appendix had probably burst during the morning following her initial UHS visit and that standard procedure in a case involving such severe abdominal cramps is to take a white blood cell count, which the UHS doctor failed...