gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg) (11/29/84)
> 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? --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "Eureka!" -Archimedes