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...this year's relief effort forestalls mass starvation, the long-term outlook for Africa's hunger belt is at best grim. A ministerial-level committee of the Sahelian nations is seeking foreign grants of $700 million to fund 126 long-range projects, such as dams, reforestation, transport networks and rebuilding of decimated herds. But the only certain means of guaranteeing that the present catastrophe will not repeat itself lies with population control rather than with food supplies...
Discharged from prison, Lou Jean Poplin-sometime beautician, full-time nudzh-must first spring her husband Clovis (William Atherton) from the minimum-security prison where he is serving a short term for sundry low crimes and misdemeanors, then help him snatch a car to transport them...
...marketable commodity than elegance. Never able to divert enough passengers from the jets, the France lost $24 million last year and could lose three times as much in 1974 because of soaring fuel costs. Thus, although the French attach great importance to symbols of national prestige, the Minister of Transport announced last week that the government could no longer "ignore the pressing economic problems of the day." The subsidies to the ship, which is two-thirds government-owned, will end this spring, and the $80 million France will be put up for sale-probably for $15 million. One possible customer...
...Lower 48 states is scheduled to begin later this spring. Now- a new battle is shaping up over the North Slope's other treasure: natural gas. Corporations, environmentalists and politicians in the U.S. and Canada have begun jostling for position on the question of how best to transport the gas to market -or whether to bother...
...Mackenzie Delta gas reserves are not now large enough to justify Canada's proposed 50% share of the program's cost. And settling claims with the Eskimos and Indians whose ancestral lands the pipeline would cross could cost billions of dollars. "This is essentially a project to transport Alaskan gas to American consumers," says McGill University Economist Eric Kierans...