https://pkman.org/archive/files/original/7/292/741110.pdf 99e7204e38817a8fd0d2c8d01ab433ea https://pkman.org/archive/files/original/34ff21430bc1d2b3f565503088cf20d3.txt cf4ff4bc3a7404895b16aaff72b23237 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1974 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === **Page: 1 of 1** E NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1974 Cattle wading through a flooded area late last August In Upper Volta, on the southern edge of the Sahara, where drought has broken> Associated Pres Rains in Sub-Sahara Area Raise Hopes for Good Harvests Soon By HENRY HAMM Special to The New York Times Nov. 10, 1974 DAKAR, Senegal-The coun- sumed that several thousand tries below the Sahara that have died of hunger or of suffered from catastrophic fa- diseases they could not resist mine as a result of drought for because of their weakened the last two years are enjoying state. Most of the deaths have a normal autumn rainy season been in Chad, Niger, Mali and that promises reasonable har- Mauritania. vests in the weeks to come. The crops will be far from Upper Volta, Senegal and sufficient for the population of Gambia, the other countries of 25 million in the seven afflicted the Sahel - the geographic sub-Saharan countries, but the word for "fringe"-were less rains have revitalized the generally or less severely af- peoples' hopes for survival and fected. the confidence of the Govern- In all seven countries, which ments that they, in turn, can were visited in the course of a play a determining role. two-month tour, hundreds of Although numbers may never thousands suffered hunger, ill- be known in a region in which ness, the loss of livelihoods and even the count of the living is tirely dependent on foreign funding and on the willingness of the member Governments to delegate powers to a regional organization. Whether donor nations are willing to forgo bilateral for re- gional assistance and whether the Governments of the region are prepared to put aside differ- ences for common programs are questions yet to be an- swered. With the rains' return, bring- ing harvests where there have been none for two years, there have been floods that make roads impassable and invasions of caterpillars and grasshop- pers and destructive birds. Reflecting on nature's ap- parent anger at the region and its people, Mr. Dadji, the Sub- prefect of Mongo, in Chad, fell back on a proverb he heard in his childhood and had not re- called since he left for universi- ty training in France. "Illness comes at a gallop," he said, "and leaves at a slow walk." far from established, it is as- Continued on Page 34, Column 1 -SCIENTISTS I told Warren Smith a year ago (for his new book "Predictions For 1975" that I would cause the above to happen, in Africa. It has happened. Owen Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 741110