The Michigan Daily-Thursday, September 18, 1980-Page 9 U.N. seeks food for Africa SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1980 at 3 P.M. RUDOLF STEINER HOUSE, 1923 Goddes, Ann Arbor A PUBLIC LECTURE ON "Rhythms In Human Biography" By Prof. Werner Glas Director Of The Waldoarf Institute Of Mercy College, Southfield Sponsored By The Rudolf Seiner Institute Of The Great Lakes Area The Public Is Invited Donation $3 (Students $1.50) ROME (AP)-More than 150 million Africans face the specter of famine worse than what was suffered in the 1973-74 drought unless wealthy countries send massive emergency shipments of cereal by the end of the year, United Nations officials report. In an attempt to stem the starvation gripping 25 African nations, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization will convene a special meeting tomorrow to launch an urgent drive aimed at securing enough wheat, rice, and maize to feed them. "If we do not help they will die quietly, slowly," FAO Director-General Edouard Saouma told repor- ters. Drought and the "man-made disasters" of civil strife have caused the critical food shortages, he said. SAOUMA IS seeking 550,000 tons of cereal to be shipped quickly to Somalia and Ethiopia-which shelter a total of more than one million refugees-and to eight nations of the Sahel area, south of the Sahara. During the 1973-74 drought in the Sahel, tens of thousands of people died, along with 3.5 million head of cattle. "We hope that the emergency will be over by mid- 1981, but we are not very optimistic," Saouma said. Saouma said he expects the United States to lead the way in pledging about 25 per cent of the $125 million FAO is seeking from 35 countries invited to tomorrow's meeting. Many countries, including some major oil producers, have not answered the invitation to the emergency conference. EMERGENCY HELP is being sought for food- short areas- stretching from Djibouti in Africa's eastern "Horn," to Lesotho in the far south, to the Cape Verde Islands off west Africa. But about half of the emergency help would go to Ethiopia and Somalia, two hostile neighbors whose conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands of people. The Rev. Salvatore Colombo, bishop of the Somali capital of Mogadishu, told a reporter that 60 per cent of, those in Somalia's 26 refugee camps are children. Many have been injured in the fighting, he said. Zimbabwe, formerly called Rhodesia, comes next on the list. It has 660,000 refugees or people just returning to the country after years as refugees from the Rhodesian guerrilla war. Sudan has 400,000 refugees and poor crop prospects. THE UGANDAN province of Karamoja-where U.N. officials say hungry men often snatch food from children and old women-is another target for food distribution. Uganda suffers from the same kind of civil strife that has made other countries, such as Chad, near- impossible destinations for grain deliveries. Ship- ments are often pillaged, stolen, or left to rot while awaiting transport on potholed tracks. Saouma estimates 2.4 million tons of cereal will be needed for the year 1980-81, but the amount of aid this year was only 1.3 million tons, fallin far short of FAO goals. In a speech prepared for delivery tomorrow, the FAO chief says: "The present crisis must be regar- ded as unique and not as the start of a new cycle of emergencies. "Political events and aberrations of nature may be uncontrollable, but the basic problems of African agriculture can be solved and must be solved." Welcome Studentsl. The University Activities Center cordially invites you to a wine and cheese open house introducing the NEW STUDENT LOUNGE AND STA FF OF THE Michigan Union. Reagan From AP and UPI Ronald Reagan called on President Carter yesterday to change his mind and join Sunday's debate with himself and John Anderson. 'There is still time for him to reverse his decision not to debate and to par- ticipate in discussing publicly the great issues facing America and the world," ithe GOP candidate said at a news con- ference at Dulles International Airport in suburban Virginia. AND AT ONE point on his Texas trip Tuesday, Reagan said the unoccupied seat in Baltimore. Will not truly be em- pty, but "will be filled with the unkept promises of Jimmy Carter." The League of Women Voters recon- sidered yesterday, however, and will not place the empty chair on the stage as it had planned. "we do not intend to let the 'empty chair' controversy overshadow the op- portunity of the American people to focus on the candidate's discussion of the issues," said Ruth Hinerfeld, chair- person of the league's Education Fund. SHE, SAID THE league's attorneys also had warned of "legal questions." On several occasions during his cam- paign trip to Texas this week, Reagan responded to Carter attacks by saying the president should be willing to debate those issues if he feels strongly about them. "I just doh't know how much farther he'll go," he said in Harlingen, "to try and divert attention from the fact that he can say all these things to a nation- wide audience." "IT LOOKS LIKE he prefers the Oval Office and the Rose Garden to a debate, and with his record, I'm not sure I can blame him," Reagan said in Corpus Christi. Meanwhile, the president's forces continued their assault on Reagan's civil rights record yesterday, calling on the GOP candidate to support a major fair housing bill and chiding him for what they said was his opposition to similar legislation in California. White House press secretary Jody Powell said that in light of Reagan's statement that he would like to see civil rights laws strengthened, "We call upon him to state his position on, and to support, the fair housing bill which is now in the Senate." "THE GOVERNOR'S POSITION is also -relevant in light of his record as governor of California, which shows he advocated repeal of the California fair housing law, known as the Rumford Act," Powell said. urges Carter to debate Hope to sae you on September 18 4:30-6:00 The Carter camp focused attention on Reagan's record in the battle between the two major parties for black support in the pivotal South, Carter's native territory. Standing before a black audience at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Carter noted Reagan cam- paign references to "states' rights" and the Ku Klux Klan, and said: "Hatred has no place in this country. Racism has no place in this country." AN INCENSED BUSH railed against Carter in a speech yesterday to the Ohio Association of Realtors in Cleveland. He said the president's statement "was mean, it was small, it was ugly, and I don't think the American people are going to cater to this kind of cam- paign." "To anyone who watched and listened to Mr. Carter's inflammatory, divisive remarks in Atlanta, his intent was un- mistakeable," Bush said, adding: "Yesterday, in what has got to be a new low by a man who holds the highest office in the land, Mr. Carter made the suggestion in Atlanta that Governor Reagan is a racist," he said. 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