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...organizations will also concentrate on planning a large-scale Harvard rally, sending aid to famine-stricken Africa and conducting a student poll on the divestment issue, Bell added...
...victim of the 1944 polio epidemic. Of the nearly 600,000 Americans who were infected by the poliomyelitis virus in this century before the development of vaccines for the disease in the 1950s, about 10% died, while many of the survivors, like Ragans, suffered some degree of paralysis. Stricken at age eleven, she was at first confined to a wheelchair, but gradually recovered enough to lead a normal life. Her slight difficulty in walking and partly paralyzed right arm did not prevent her successful career as an art instructor and painter...
...foreign assistance in Africa, after Egypt. In addition, partly to cope with the refugee crisis, Washington is donating at least another $60 million in emergency aid. But most of that will have to be used to feed hungry Sudanese. Says Amala Hussein, the mother of six from the drought-stricken region of Northern Kordofan: "In our area there is only hunger and thirst now. In the summer our goats, sheep and camels were all dying from lack of grass...
First they arrived in a trickle, which quickly became an ever increasing stream, then a flood. Gaunt, starving, often dressed in rags, thousands of Ethiopian refugees continued to stagger across the drought-stricken northern wastelands of their country last week. Their destination was neighboring Sudan. On their heels came disturbing reports of Ethiopian air force planes strafing refugee columns and bombing villages. As makeshift relief camps sprang up and swelled with alarming rapidity on the Sudanese side of the border, yet another specter began to haunt Africa: the threat that the exodus of starving people would overwhelm the meager resources...
...condition. Said one Israeli involved in the resettlement program: "They are coming here less than ill clothed, less than ill fed and without homes. We have had to start from scratch." In fact, some arrived at Ben Gurion International Airport carrying nothing but water pails, cherished possessions in drought-stricken Sudan and Ethiopia. Many suffer from malnutrition, malaria, tuberculosis, jaundice, typhus and tapeworm. "I had to go back to my textbooks to look up some of these diseases," said an Israeli doctor...