@pesnta.UUCP (10/15/83)
This appeared in the Toronto Star 83.10.08
Washington (AP) - Every 60 seconds, the world spends $1.3 million for
military purposes - and 30 children die for want of food and inexpensive
vaccines, a new report says.
The shocking statistics were revealed yesterday in a study sponsored by
several private U.S. organizations, including the Arms Control Association
anf the Rockefeller Foundation.
...
"... current world budget of $660 billion per year, a stockpile of 50,000
nuclear weapons, 25 million men under arms, 1 billion people living under
military-controlled governments, more than 9 million civiliants killed in
conventional wars since Hiroshima"
...
The cost of one new nuclear submarine equals the annual education budget
of 23 developing countries with 160 million school age children.
In a year when U.S. farmers were paid to take almost 40.5 million hectares
[ approxiamately equivalent to acres ] of cropland out of production,
450 million people in the world are starving.
Sorry to take up your valuable time, but these are numbers we all need to
be aware of. There are no simple solutions, but something has to be better
than this!
-- Dave Mason, U. Toronto CSRG,
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