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...things are different this time around. The symptoms that caused this year's deficit threaten to be long-term rather than short-term aberrations, and with each passing year the weapons with which the University can fight back become less effective...
...Conference, instead of being an effort to rectify structures that prevent the poor from feeding themselves, is an attempt to preserve them. These current international and derivative internal economic orders jeopardize not only the lives of millions of people around the world, but more seriously for many involved, threaten to rip the veil away from the system of development which we, but mostly the poor, have paid to support. The very real shortages of food in the world are, conspicuously enough, brought on by an interaction of supply shortages in the rich countries, elite-dominated distribution of resources such...
...African agony may be only the first act of a world tragedy. Since 1972, droughts, floods, frosts and runaway fuel and fertilizer prices have wiped out farm surpluses and now threaten the swelling populations of many underdeveloped countries with mass death by famine. To examine that stark prospect, as the United Nations convenes the first global food conference in Rome this week, TIME presents a special report: The World Food Crisis...
Only slightly less serious are the situations in Honduras, Burma, Burundi, Rwanda, the Sudan and Yemen. Additionally, poor harvests threaten food supplies in Nepal, Somalia, Tanzania, Zambia and even the Philippines and Mexico. In Haiti, because of disregard for soil conservation, hundreds of thousands of subsistence farmers face starvation. Whole families are often so hungry that they do not wait for mangoes to ripen; they boil the green fruit...
Army and Navy are question marks, as they did not run against Harvard this fall, but the Middies usually field a strong team, and they, too, could threaten the Crimson...