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...donated food remains heaped high on the docks where it is prey to rats, locusts and thieves. The major problem, however, is logistics. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, after inspecting the famine areas in February, reported: "I saw piles of foodstuffs in the capitals of the drought-stricken countries, but the governments told me they cannot ship it to the areas most afflicted. Because of the lack of roads-it is just sand, everywhere you look you have sand-after a relatively short time, the trucks are not usable any more...
Only last month United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim returned from a tour of drought-stricken African states and declared that several of the six nations of the Sahelian strip just beneath the Sahara could literally disappear as a result of the devastation spread by a six-year dry spell. Last week, in landlocked Niger, a military coup toppled the democratic government that President Hamani Diori, 57, had conscientiously administered since he led his people to independence from France in 1960. Though the coup was largely bloodless, three people were reported killed, including Diori's wife, who was shot...
...treasurer of the Committee to Re-Elect the President when he learned of C.R.P.'s sordid political involvements. Sloan led the reporters onto the fact that funds for the burglary came from C.R.P. Among other sources who pepper the book's pages with their tips: "the Bookkeeper," a conscience-stricken woman who served C.R.P.'s finance chairman, Maurice Stans. "Something is rotten in Denmark and I'm part of it," she tremblingly warned Bernstein in her home one night a few weeks after the breakin...
...absence of flu-stricken Ken Lindner, Harvard's top player, placed the Crimson at a disadvantage for both contests. Coach Jack Barnaby moved the regular two-through-six singles players each up one position and placed Charlie Krusen in the sixth slot, but Harvard failed to present an overwhelming opposition...
Along with the Princeton tilt at the close of the season, the Columbia and Penn games are Harvard's most important league contests. The Crimson begins the road trip at a disadvantage, as two of the six singles starters, including captain Ken Lindner, have been flu-stricken all week...