Page 2-Wednesday, November 15, 1978-The Michigan Daily
U' PR OF. SPEAKS ON WORLD HUNGER:
Malnutrition:
:By STEVEN SHAER of infectious a]
By SEapproximately
- Last night before a crowd of over 50 at the School of United States
ublic Health, University Prof. Lawrence Brilliant diseases and
said that most Third World residents die because of year's death re
,diseases linked to malnutrition. "Malnutriti
Brilliant was the keynote speaker on the second in the unde
flay of a four-day program presented by the emphasized.
ommittee Concerned With World Hunger. diseases," he a
"Clearly, there exists two different worlds, one He also said
with the rich and one with the poor," said Brilliant, different work
"IN THE DEVELOPING countries, we're talking together.
about a different kind of death than that in the third "ONE OF T
,World. In the United States, five per cent of deaths me when I ret
Iccur to those under the age of five. In the third to find that m
>world, half of the deaths occur to those under five," bitter now tha
said Brilliant. Brilliant said
! The difference between deaths in the First - or eradication of
,developed world and those in the Third World was "Eliminatin
clearly explained by Brilliant with the aid of two to check popul
;circle diagrams. more children
The diagrams portrayed the death rate in Pakistan theThird World
in 1971, where 65 per cent of all deaths were the result By eradicati
Third World killer
rd parasitic diseases. Malaria made up
y eight per cent of the rate. In the
for the year 1970, cardiovascular
cancer comprised 70 per cent of the
ate.
on plays an important role in all deaths
erdeveloped countries," Brilliant
"Will is needed to combat these
added.
that, despite the fact that we live in two
ds, it was still possible to bring them
lHE SADDEST things that happened to
urned to Ann Arbor (From India) was
nany of the pundits of academe were.
it there were more mouths, to feed,"
, referring to lives saved by the
smallpox from the world.
g malnutrition is one of the best means
ation growth. Families purposely have
to account for the high death rates in
countries," Brilliant added.
ng malnutrition, the number one cause
of the deaths, there would be no reason for the people
to have larger families, Brilliant said.
BRILLIANT STATED that many of the death-
related diseases could be cured if enough money and
resources were available to the underdeveloped
countries. - The World Health Organization (WHO)
has a budget of only $140 million dollars, and
President Carter recently signed a bill completely
ending United States funding to WHO.
"The biggest killer in the world today is diarrhea.
Over half the deaths in Bangladesh are from it,'
Brilliant said.
He related a conversation with an Egyptian friend.
"He told me that if American wants to regain its
position of respect in the world, it must do two things.
First, it must not continue to call its championship
baseball game the World Series", and it must aid the
underdeveloped countries in finding cures for
diseases not affecting the United States, Brilliant
said.
The Egyptian friend had said that if malaria had
been a killing disease in America, then there would
have been a cure for it discovered.
:a
Wavy Gravy to promote hunger awareness
(Continued from Page 1)
people should bring musical instrumen-
ts," said Gravy, referring to the Diag
presentation sponsored by the Commit-
tee Concerned with World Hunger.
Gravy said he became active in effor-
ts to head off world starvation in 1974
when he worked with a group that
provided relief for Africans in the
Sahara. '
"IT COST TEN cents per day to feed
a person at the time," he said. "Every
The Ann Arbor Film ertive presents at Aud A
WEDNESDAY, OVEMBER 15
HARLAN COUNTY, USA
(Barbara Kopple, 1976) 7& 9-AUD A
A 1974 strike by coal miners in Harlan County, Ky., marked the first violent
confrontation there since the bloody union organizing battles of the 1930's.
Filmmaker Barbara Kopple lived with the families of the miners during their
year-long strike, and documents the first UMW strike in which women took
an active, militant stand. Includes rare footage of the assassination of UMW
activist Yablonsky, and the victory of Arnold Miller over Tony Boyle. "Probably
the most powerful documentary in the last ten years . . .HARLAN COUNTY
makes it clear just why coal miners will never be treated the same way
again.. ."-N.Y. Times. Academy Award, Best Documentary, 1976.
Tomorrow: BARBARELLA & NO BLADE OF GRASS
time I made a wrong phone call, I'd
say, 'Oh. boy, there goes another
African'.'
He said his attempts at humor work
best in the least humorous situations.
"I remember we were at a UN con-
vention in Sweden," Gravy recalled.
"We had a bus dressed up like a whale
that squirted water when we drove
through the streets of Stockholm."
GRAVY HAS been busy this week set-
ting up tomorrow's spectacle on the
Diag. He said 100 people are being
sought to portray the world's
population, with six representing well-
to-do individuals and 94 making up the
poor.
"We'll give the rich some toy guns
that shoot darts so they can protect
their possessions," Gravy said. The
poor, Gravy said, will be given only
wooden bowls and spoons.
Gravy said the event has no formal
structure, as people will show up and
sing and play instruments as they
please.
IN ADDITION to his other pursuits,
Gravy has worked in presidential cam-
paigns.
"We were the first group to have a
female black and white candidate run-
ning for President," Gravy said,
referring to a sow named Pigasus,
which ran in 1958.
"In 1972, we ran a rock for President
and in 1976 began our "nobody for
President" campaign. I worked as
nobody's fool," Gravy added. Gravy
and his supporters plan to be in New
Hampshire so as not to miss the start of
the 1980 campaign.
GRAVY HAS also been involved in
helping children with brain damage for
over 10 years.
"I am in the process of putting
together a children's camp, called,
High-Camp. It will be a combination
kid's camp, center for birth,'and center
for death," Gravy said.
custommade rung
paily Photo by WAYNE CABLE
Remembrances of things past
'U' cheerleader Newt Loken enjoys the weather of the not-so-distant past, But
it's unlikely he'll get the chance to do his thing again until next spring, and if
he does, it won't be in shirt sleeves.
Sadat says deadlocked peace
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By The Associated Press
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
said yesterday the peace talks with'
Israel are at a turning point and ie is
sending his vice president to
Washington with a message for
President Carter.
"We have reached a turning point. If
the other side does not respond, well,
this will be their responsibility before
the whole world," said Sadat, referring
to Israel.
IN TEL AVIV, Israeli Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan said the 'two
sides had made much progress in the
five weeks of talks, but they hadn't yet
reached "the end of the road."
"We have ended the major main text
of the peace treaty, though there are
still a few items we don't agree on,"
Dayan told reporters after returning
from the Washington talks. "Two items
are not accepted by us and I think about'
two are not accepted by the Egyp-
tians," he said without elabo
EPrime Minister Menach
who returned Monday from
and U.S. visit, will present
cabinet today with an Ame
promise dealing with the
linking the treaty to a settlex
Palestinian question, whichl
the talks to bog down.
EGYPT'S ACTING Foreig
Boutros Ghali also returne
yesterday for consultations.
high-level talks were schedu
day in the absence of Dayan
two of the primary negotiato
In a Washington TV inter
day night, President Carte
most rueful assessment of
since the Camp David pea
were signed in September..
"I just don't know what v
aboutit; we just pray that a
will be reached," Carter sai
involved in the negotiation
turning point
rating. cannot make Israel accept the Egyp-
em Begin, tians' demands nor vice versa. We hve
a Canadian to try totorie down those demands and
the Israeli 'use our influence."
rican com- Sadat said he was sending Vice
e issue of President Hosni Muharak to
ment of the Washington today to show "Egypt's
has caused determination to reach a peaceful
solution of the Middle East conflict."
gn Minister The president refused to reveal the sub-
d to Cairo stance of the message Muharak is
No formal carrying to Carter.
sled yester- When asked what he meant by a tur-
and Ghali, ning point, Sadat replied, "it means a
rs. lot," but declined to elaborate. "I am
view Mon- not speaking today of suspending
r gave his talks," he added.
the talaks The main sticking point has been
ce accords Egypt's insistence that a peace treaty
with Israel be bound to a commitment
vill happen on speedy talks over the future of the
greements West Bank and Gaza.
d. "We are Israel has rejected this, saying the
ns, but we peace treaty should stand on its own.
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