World food crisis
A note from the editor
The New Internationalist arises from and in response to this growing movement. For the last two years it has been going out every term to the 33,000 students in British universities who are giving a percentage of their grants each year to overseas development projects through the Third World First bankers order scheme.
With this issue, the New Internationalist becomes a monthly magazine, backed jointly by Oxfam and Christian Aid, and aimed at a wider audience. It will report on the people, the ideas, and the action in the fight for world development; it will give a platform to the new social and political ideas from Africa, Asia, and Latin America; it will debate and campaign for the great changes which are necessary to bring justice and help to the world's poor.
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The big story
The Second Front
1 - March, 1973
The New Internationalist monthly campaigning page on third world issues.
Features
Kaunda
1 - March, 1973
As the tension mounts in southern Africa, Zambian Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda talks to the New Internationalist about the Rhodesian blockade; the racial crisis on the continent; and the key issues facing Zambia itself. Interview by David Martin.
The new Europe and the third world - Roy Jenkins
1 - March, 1973
Taking up the main themes of his Edinburgh speech on "The Challenge of World Poverty" Roy Jenkins writes on the new European context of that challenge and calls on the enlarged nine-nation community to take the lead in introducing new policies which will work in the best interests of both the Third World and the European Community itself.
World food crisis
1 - March, 1973
Harvests have fallen short of targets in almost all the most populous parts of the world. As food shortages reach crisis point for millions of people in the poor world, Keith Abercrombie spells out the present situation and analyses the underlying issues which threaten to set back the whole process of world development in the Second Development Decade.
Crying in the wilderness
1 - March, 1973
The author of this article, Asfaw Yemiru, is one of Africa's most extraordinary men. At the age of 10, he was an illiterate beggar-boy on the streets of Addis Ababa. Today, aged 28, he is headmaster of a free school for over 3,000 poor children. Not content with this achievement, Asfaw is now moving his school towards a new concept of education which could have significance not just for Ethiopia but for many other parts of both the developing and the developed world.
Post script: The Moya
1 - March, 1973
Since completing this article, Asfaw Yemiru has finalised plans for putting his new educational ideas into practice. Alex Brodie describes the "Moya" which Asfaw and his pupils will soon begin building.
Agenda
Regulars
R.K. Laxman
1 - March, 1973
Inder Malhotra, writing from Bombay, profiles R.K.Laxman, brilliant cartoonist of the "Times of India", whose insights into India's development struggle are looked forward to by millions every day. The central character of Laxman's cartoons is "The Common Manthe symbol of the average long-suffering Indian who tries to dismiss with a laugh the pomposity of politicians, the petty tyrannies of bureaucrats, and life's multiplying misfortunes".
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