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Mayer said the United States, the United Nations, Common Market countries and religious organizations have shipped "plenty of food, probably as much as is necessary" to the six stricken African nations. "The problem now is to reach the distant nomadic peoples who haven't been driven to the cities out of the sub-Sahara...
...only the second time in U.S. history, the American people seriously confront the possibility of the impeachment or forced resignation of a President. It is a painful, lacerating process-as agonizing for them as it may ultimately be for the stricken President. Though a few are gleeful about the possible removal of an old enemy, most face the prospect with considerable foreboding, a profound sense of loss for themselves, their country, their history. A majority still do not favor impeachment, though it is openly discussed everywhere. But many hope that Richard Nixon, in a final presidential act, will resign...
...thousand students agree to participate in a one meal fast on November 29, Harvard will send the money it saves to help victims of drought-stricken west Africa...
...decisive turn in the fortunes of battle. If at week's end the Israelis at last appeared to be pulling into the lead, the combatants themselves did not seem to realize it. The Arabs were still deeply proud of their new-found military prowess. The Israelis were still stricken with a bitterness perhaps greater than any they had known before...
...stricken woman was a victim of "food inhalation," an often fatal accident that is so often misdiagnosed as a heart attack that it has come to be called the café coronary. Partly as a result of these incorrect diagnoses, Florida Physicians WilLiam C. Eller and Roger K. Haugen report in the New England Journal of Medicine, choking on food is the sixth leading cause of accidental death in the country. Because, according to the National Safety Council, nearly 2,500 persons die while dining each year, the café coronary outranks aircraft accidents, firearms, lightning and snakebite...