Locusts hit Lebanon
I NZPA Beirut A locust invasion in southern Lebanon became I acute at the week-end as a jnew wave of insects jswarmed into the central Isector of the region, j Farmers fighting off the; | locusts are being helped by; a United Nations peaceIkeeping force helicopter. Southern Lebanese farmlers, already hard hit by the l ■ Israeli-Palestinian .conflict, [are calling for immediate , Government help. “The locusts will not wait for the) Ministry to complete its re- | search Before they eat 1 .'everything,” they said. Huge swarms — covering, lup to 10,000 ha (25.000; I acres) — have already; 1 spread havoc across parts of I Ethiopia and Somalia in the] jwake of the Ogaden war, I during which spraying that j I could have stopped them 'was disrupted.
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Press, 26 June 1978, Page 9
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