Convention centre in Ethiopa
Sir,—The United States, with justifiable indignation, has condemned the spending of $154 million on a new United Nations conference centre in faminestricken Ethiopia. It points out that one million children could have been inoculated against all the main communicable diseases, 25,000 wells built and pumps installed to bring water to 12.5 million people, 125,000 Ethiopian families fed for one year, and all of Chad’s cereal imports for 1985 supplied (“The Press,” December 20). Perhaps this concern of the U.S.A, might prompt it to consider its own mind-boggling spending on armaments when just one Trident submarine (16 are planned) costs $2 billion. What could not that amount of money do for drought-stricken Africa? — Yours, etc., D. STOCKER. December 20, 1984.
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