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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, March 31, 1966

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Morch 1964 the Challenge of hunger Specter of famine Falls across world editors note it is hard for Welt fed americans to Bat the world b plunging rapidly owned the Gravot food crisis in hit his India already is threatened by scientists say there could be mass Star vation in scores of countries within a few this is the first of three special reports by on the War attains in by Louis Cassels March 29 Dpi thin is the Mast fundamental Anil Moil nearly insoluble problem the has Ever confronted the item in the quiet tone in which the words a Cir spoken made them Oil the More they underscored the act that this was not political hyperbole but the sober judgment of a noted the judgment was delivered a hearing of the House agriculture the scientist was Raymond vice president for state University of this common when vast numbers of Parent see their children weak and dying of Only a spark will be required to Start a conflagration which would be almost impossible to new the nearly insoluble problem is producing enough food to feed the billion people who will inhabit the Earth by but 1mo int when the problem will it is the Point at which things will get completely out of hand unless drastic Steps Are even with billion Mouths to the Earth is stalked by problem is much Mare serious than most people says Henry Sebrell professor of pub Lic health and col actual famine is already Ben in some of the As indicated by the current food Cruls in he and we Aro faced with the Prospect that famine almost certainly is going to appear in other parts of the world in our own hemisphere the next few famine sounds a Little old like something in a it Doest carry much emotional charge if you read it when your stomachs Comfort ably to begin to appreciate what it you need to skip a few Only when Hanger pains gnawing at you Are Yon Ludy Able to absorb the fact thai famine Means millons and millions of people with nothing to growing hungrier and weaker every Day until they finally die of if the Prospect does not arouse it May at Kasl touch the lower chord of human nature called unless we act quickly and the scattered food riots of this decade will turn into full scale bloody revolt in the says father James noted Catholic agricultural expert individuals or Small groups May die quietly of starvation but when tent of millions face All of this doubtless was in president Johnsons mind when he sent Congress a special message proposing that the United states Lead the world in a War against the unimaginable disaster of widespread famine can be the president said but Only by an fallout Effort to increase farm particularly in the undeveloped countries where population pressure on food supplies is Bull is a not lighting Gnu the Ball look to the air la the bullring in in an attempt to escape Bis saucers not scientists dish he soared Over the inner Barrier but his efforts were la Vala As he was driven Back into the press photo three jeer at ufos March 30 you sight what you think is a flying forget its All in the three top space scientists feel there is More cause to be worried about the people who say they have sighted a visitor from outer space than about the alleged so Many airline pilots re port seeing i Lake the declared Edward executive Secretary of Tho National aeronautics and space people Are anxious to be Lieve there is intelligent life on other planets and see flying saucers because they want to see flying scoffed Paul reports of unidentified flying objects ufos Are just a mechanism for escaping from More earthly troubles and Wor he told a convention Dis cussing astronomer John Hall said he could not understand Why a civilization so advanced it could Send a manned space ship a distance of at least three Light years would have that ship hover Over swamps in Michigan or Crossroads in he thought it would to better employed peek booing new York or Lon the air Force has announced that it keeps an open it has a special Public experts ready Star fighter report relations office which answers thousands of letters a year from schoolchild flying Saucer clubs and project Blue begun in explained of sightings last the other 641 were inexplicable the air Force and the description of the object or its motion cannot be Cor related with any known object or the air Force found that the bulk of things seen were Bright com moving vapor search spurious radar fireworks or it concluded that no ufos has indicated it threatens National that there is no evidence of technological developments beyond present Day and that there is no evidence that ufos Are extraterrestrial most Johnson Sild the United states should begin to step up its own production of certain foods Sharp break with programs aimed at curtailing but even if All of the m million acres of cropland which Are now in conservation reset were again planted in food he it would not be possible Tor this country to feed an increasingly hungry and the attempt to place the whole Load on us american Farmer would Only postpone the Day when the developing countries will come to grips with the difficult Tat my  problem sharply increasing toe outfit of their own there has been a pronounced tendency for the emerging nations to neglect agriculture a favor of hydroelectric steel Mills and other status symbols of Johnson alluded to this by warning Many of the develop tag countries urgently need to five a higher priority to improving and modernizing their own production and distribution of the overwhelming majority of those who till the soil it Fol use the primitive methods of their America should ready to help be by sharing the agricultural Kwh Bow that has led to such phenomenal increases la crop yields in this Aid with economic Aid to buy bettor pesticides Aid farming the president submitted legislation the food for free Dom act no 1966 to authorize Broa scale american assistance to nations which make a serious Effort to raise their food he also said hut a lure part of the Money he has asked for foreign economic Aid will be Chan need into projects aimed at improving agriculture in devel Oping the presidents proposals Are now being considered by the House and Senate agriculture tatar there has been Little vocal Bat j3 neither has there been a great 3 outpouring of Public support 4 preoccupied by the War in Viet americans seem reluctant to Rise to the Challenge of the War meanwhile the scientists keep saying shul the food crisis Wilt not wait we Are engaged in a race against said John research director of agriculture research and Roger Revelle of Harvard nothing less than the future of Mankind is at next pop Lauon and suited to european flying conditions and modified to fit the Luftwaffe the team launched its investigation amid heated controversy Here about the air a total of s3 Stamfl Giters have crashed since the Luftwaffe put them in service in of 33 have crashed in the last 18 the containing suggestions for alleviation of Ger Many difficulties with the will be presented to it Werner Luft Lockheed designed the Waffle the a variant of the american f104 sources 30 Ufi a team of Lockheed aviation experts is expected to report to the Bonn government within a few weeks about its Examina Tion of West German f104g Star fighter informed sour Ces said the 11man group has spent several weeks visit ing West German air Force bases and inspecting the Star supersonic Jet Back Bone of the nations nuclear european edition army James Ura William Coleman Arnold Elmer Frank Merv Epstein mat to i no York in Milter no r m us Pom ii  
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