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To the editor
Sure, the recession has made it rough on Americans the past few years, with the poverty-level' population increasing from 29 million in 1980 to over 35 million at present. This has been a painful but endurable experience for us.
But outside U.S. borders, there have some actually horrifying developments which worsen with each passing year. UNICEF, reports that in 1983 alone, 21 million children died, most in Third World countries. The sheer immensity of the problem almost overwhelms the mind. Some nations lose, during the first year of life, more than 150 of every 1,000 five births.
UNICEF, for lack of sufficient funds, has been fighting a losing battle to improve these statistics. They contend that with additional money from the First World they could save the lives of 10 million children a year. They could extend a strategy which they have found to be very effective in the past several years. This strategy, in 1982 for example, involved the use of 900,000 volunteers whom UNICEF
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