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Friday, October 9, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
From the KU Weather Service
Students told to fight hunger
Speakers say world's problem is distribution, not shortage
By MICHAEL CAROLAN Special to the Kansan
Individuals can make the difference in stopping world hunger by the end of the century, two guest speakers said last night at the KU Students Against Hunger meeting in the Kansas Union.
"The power is within us," Paul Debarthe, a hunger Project briefing leader, told about 30 people in the Pine Room. "Knowledge will enable us to bring that power out and solve the hunger problem."
Marty Stoelette, also a Hunger Project briefing leader, said, "The question is no longer 'Can we end world hunger?' but when."
People need to become part of an organization that will help people
help themselves, Debarthe said.
There is no food shortage in the world. Debarthe said, only an uneven distribution of food.
Stoeztle said, "There is an assumption that people have starved and always will. We now have the resources to ston hunger."
Those who attended the organization's third meeting participated in an exercise that illustrated the unequal distribution of food.
Debartha passed out cookies to seven groups of people, each representing a continent. Each person in the group represented 250 million people. The cookies represented the food supply of each continent. For example, North America had only one person and 14 cookies. Asia had
12 people and 7 cookies.
12 people and
The Hunger Project, a worldwide
organization, will link by satellite
approximately 72 cities and 60,000
people worldwide on Nov. 14 for a
teleconference to stop hunger.
"This is a turning point for the hunger problem." Debarthe said. "Several million people have decided that ending hunger is a priority."
that ending
Steve Brown, president of KU
Students Against Hunger, said that
the meeting was a kickoff for a variety of
things the organization wanted to do
to educate students.
The next KU Students Against Hunger meeting is at 7 p.m. Oct. 22, in the Pine Room.
Lawmakers being asked to aid in struggle of retired teachers
The Associated Press
LINCOLN, Neb. — The Nebraska State Legislature is being urged to approve a plan for ending what one person said is a tragic situation that has become a disgrace to the teaching profession and to the state.
The tragic situation, as described at a public hearing of the Retirement Committee, is the living conditions of 1.420 teachers who retired before the current state teachers retirement program was established more than 20 years ago.
According to Herb Schimek, a lobbyist for the Nebraska State Education Association, many of those teachers are living near the brink of poverty through no fault of their own.
"These people taught during the years when teacher salaries were very pitiful, when the retirement system was practically non-existent
and when many of the teachers were not covered by Social Security," he said. "Today their living conditions are a disgrace to the profession and the state of Nebraska."
The proposed plan calls for the purchase of a $6.9 million annuity financed from interest earned by the state teachers retirement fund.
It would allow the minimum benefit paid to these retired teachers to be increased from $154 a month to $250.
The current minimum is the same that was written into the law passed in 1980 creating a supplemental retirement program for teachers with at least 25 years' experience who were ineligible for the regular retirement program.
The proposal was drafted by the NSEA after unsuccessful attempts during the past two legislative sessions to get the minimum benefit
increased with the state picking up the tab.
In his remarks, Schimkep said that it was only because the state would pay for the cost that the previous proposals were killed.
Under the NSEA proposal, he said,
that problem should be alleviated.
Among others testifying in support of the proposal was State Sen. Don Wesley of Lincoln who sponsored the bill, which was discussed during the two previous sessions.
"What you basically have are the present teachers taking care of the previously retired teachers," Schimke said.
Wesely, who introduced the resolution that led to the committee hearing, praised the NSEA for drafting a plan that should be insulated from the pressures against anything that increases state expense.
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waterway and adjacent Arabian Sea a month ago.
Late yesterday, Pentagon officials disclosed that a second, unrelated incident had occurred in the southern Persian Gulf. Pentagon officials said in a statement that a U.S. helicopter flying from frigate Ford "reported shots fired from an Iranian oil rig," about 120 miles east of Bahrain.
"The helicopter cleared the area without further incident. It could not be determined whether or not the shots were fired at the helicopter. Accordingly, the U.S. helicopter did not respond by firing."
ter approached three and possibly four Iranian patrol boats in the northern gulf, about 15 miles southwest of the Iranian-controlled island of Farsi.
The Tomoe 8, a 9.400-ton chemical tanker flying the Panamanian flag, was hit by what the captain called a gunboat missile. The attack came the day after Japanese ship owners lifted a suspension that kept their tankers from operating in the gulf for a week.
Elsewhere in the gulf yesterday, an Iranian vessel attacked a Japanese tanker, wounding three crewmen and starting a fire in the engine room.
Hoffman said the sinking of the Iranian vessels yesterday began when a lone U.S. observation helicop
from operating in the guantanamo
Iraq reported its seventh air strike
on Iranian coastal shipping in four
days.
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