Query -- [Fwd: Does anybody in this country get it?]

Kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Tue Nov 6 13:02:13 PST 2001


At 03:39 PM 11/6/01 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:


>Sarah Zaidi, research director of the Center for Economic & Social Rights
><http://www.cesr.org> said on my radio show last week that the consensus
>of human rights and aids workers was that about 4 million were at risk in
>the coming months. They have several Afghanistan fact sheets on their web site.
>
>Doug

http://www.cesr.org/press.htm#Afghanistan%20Hunger%20Release

has the same 7.5 million figure. however, there were 5 million in danger of starving prior to S11.

carrol would do well to use the Economist figures, following Chomsky's example, I think.

kelley



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