Word: third world
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...some passing fancy." Of course, this was before Tower began to crumble and it was discovered that Secretary of State James Baker owned an estimated $2.9 million worth of Chemical Bank stock while he was Treasury Secretary with policymaking influence over the treatment of the bank's shaky Third World loans. These days the President sounds less like a patrician reformer as he muses aloud, "I hope I haven't created something that just carries things...
...Eagleburger, who became president of Kissinger Associates in 1984, after 27 years in Government. About to be nominated as Deputy Secretary of State, Eagleburger is expected to face a grueling confirmation battle revolving around the firm's globe-girdling client list that touches everything from Middle Eastern oil to Third World debt. Granted, Eagleburger is respected. But are his credentials so special as to override the possible conflicts of interest...
...leaving aside the melodrama of the daughter's operation, we don't stop people from doing things to support their families -- working in coal mines, for example -- that reduce their life expectancies , more than would the loss of a kidney. In fact, there are places in the Third World where even $4,400 can do more for a person's own life expectancy than a spare kidney...
...other colleges, minority organizations operate much differently. For example, Brown's Third World Coalition recently organized an immense protest against the lack of representation of Third World issues in Brown's curriculum. Film clips of the protest, as well as interviews with the members of the Coalition, will be aired this month on 20/20...
Last year, points out Brown, the U.S. became a "food deficit" nation, producing 196 million tons of grain and consuming 206 million. The 100 or so nations that purchase food from us are being supplied out of our dwindling reserves, now down to one-third of our stocks of just two years ago. The world's carry-over supplies have been reduced from 101 days of food consumption to 54 days, which is just about enough to keep the global food pipeline filled. "If the drought goes on," says Brown, "we could see a frantic scramble for supplies that would...