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...read the files of TIME's Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs, who has logged 15,000 miles over the past year and a half on what he describes as "a terribly depressing" assignment: covering drought and famine in Africa's sub-Sahara...
Nearly half a billion people are suffering from some form of hunger; 10,000 of them die of starvation each week in Africa, Asia and Latin America. There are all too familiar severe shortages of food in the sub-Saharan Sahelian countries of Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Upper Volta and Niger; also in Ethiopia, northeastern Brazil, India and Bangladesh. India alone needs 8 to 10 million tons of food this year from outside sources, or else as many as 30 million people might starve...
...famished people. "It is going to take a tremendous disaster from famine before people come to grips with the population problem," warns Norman Borlaug, the prime mover of the Green Revolution. "The stage is set for such a situation right now." Indeed, in parts of Central America, in ten sub-Saharan nations and in some rural areas of India, the 20-year trend of declining death rates and infant mortality is being reversed. Death rates are rising. This, according to Malthus, is nature's brutal way of redressing the balance when population exceeds food supply-if man himself does...
James G. LeMoyne '74-4 and John J. Martin '74-4, members of the sub-committee which submitted the proposal, said the recommendation to rewrite the resolution's substance is as significant as the recommendation to reform the CRR's procedures...
...proposal will now be considered by a sub-committee of the Faculty Council, and later reconsidered by CHUL. If a referendum among the student body then approves the CHUL's recommendation for CRR reform, the recommendation will be sent to the Faculty for final approval...