University Daily Kansan, February 27, 1985 Page14
NATION AND WORLD
Hunger in U.S. termed epidemic
By United Press International
BOSTON — Hunger is a national health epidemic striking 20 million Americans and requiring more money for food programs, a two-year nationwide study reported yesterday.
"Hunger has returned to our nation primarily due to governmental failure," said the report of the Physician Task Force on Hunger in America, prepared at Harvard University's School of Public Health.
The task force called on Congress to strengthen the food stamp program, build up school meal and other food programs for children and meals-on-wheels programs for the elderly.
The report said past government efforts to wipe out hunger had been far more effective than present efforts. It concluded that hunger was more widespread and serious than at any time in the last 10 to 15 years.
NO PRECISE COUNT of the nation's hungry is available, the physicians said. But they estimated that 20 million Americans suffer from hunger and offered moving case studies in the 147-page report called "Hunger In America: The Growing Epidemic".
To compile the study, teams of physicians visited health clinics, soup kitchens and food centers for research done in 1968 and 1978.
"A young father in Pasadena, Texas, broke into tears as he told us
that he sometimes cannot feed his wife and three sons," the physicians wrote. "But he is little different from the fathers in Montgomery, Ala., Peoria, and other cities who cried as they told us the same thing."
Although the report did not try to specify how much eliminating hunger would cost, it said the problem could disappear if Congress would spend more money on food programs.
Task force chairman J. Larry Brown of the Harvard School of Public Health said strengthening the problem in six months.
"We cannot maintain that we lack the resources to end hunger when numerous other industrialized nations have done so," the report said.
Jackson nixes idea of black army
By United Press International
CHICAGO — The Rev. Jesse Jackson said yesterday Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy's call for blacks to form their own army and rise against "white America goes against 'our concern of progress.'"
In denouncing Khadafy's call for sedition, Jackson said, "The idea of a separate state and armed struggle is undesirable and untenable."
Khadayf spoke Sunday by satellite to the 1958 Nation of Islam International Savior's Day Convention in
Chicago and urged the 400,000 black soldiers in the U.S. Army to leave the military and create a separate force.
Jackson, former Democratic presidential candidate and civil rights leader, said Khadifa's call for a black army to rise against white America is the opposite of "our concept of progress as we pursue coalition with other stratas in the U.S. population, co-existence and economic and political empowerment."
the national integrity and patriotism of Afro-Americans with respect to our own country," Jackson said.
"For the leader of another sovereign nation to make such an offer raises threatening questions about
"We will continue to pursue a policy of struggle for human rights, social and economic justice, and to help our people find solutions for these goals and the world."
Jackson, whose presidential bid was supported by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, said he had called Farrakhan upon hearing Khadafy's statement and received Farrakhan's assurance that he did not identify with the Libyan leader's approach.
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