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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg)
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Subject: Re: Re: poor starving people
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Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 22:45:14 EST
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> The problem was KNOWN and IGNORED by our government for
> several years.

Don't be so shocked.  A country usually needs positive incentive to even
notice a problem in another country.  For example, Cambodia is still losing
population because of war, and almost as quickly as Lebanon (since it is
bigger than Lebanon and has a higher birth rate, the problem is really
even worse than in Lebanon).  And yet there are so few news reports about
it...

In any case, the American public (and probably other publics too) get
concerned about something only when the U.S. government is politically
involved, or when it is something on the scale of genocide.  So if the
public doesn't care, why would you expect the governemnt to do anything?
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

"Eureka!" -Archimedes