FrontLines: Septembers Past
FrontLines - September 2009
1969: New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller submitted a report on his mission to 20 Latin American countries to President Richard M. Nixon. Nixon said the report would “play a vital part of the construction of sensitive new concepts and programs” for assistance
to Latin America.
1979: Hurricane David swept through the Caribbean with the Dominican Republic and Dominica receiving the brunt of the devastation. FrontLines reported that, in the Dominican Republic, 40 percent of the bridges were damaged and 70 percent of the food crop was lost to wind and rains. USAID contributed nearly $3 million in relief assistance that year.
1989: On the front page, FrontLines reported on the deaths of 16 people aboard a plane that crashed into a mountainside in western Ethiopia. Among the passengers were Congressman Mickey Leland (D-Texas), chairman of the House Select Committee on Hunger; Thomas Worrick, deputy USAID representative
in Ethiopia; Worrick’s wife, Roberta, an Agency contractor;
Gladys Gilbert, USAID refugee assistance project officer; and Debebe Agonafer, a Foreign Service National agricultural economist. The plane was headed to the Fugnido Refugee Camp.
1999: First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton joined officials from major food and pharmaceutical
companies and international organizations in signing a declaration
that created a “Vitamin A Global Alliance” and pledged “immediate, concrete” steps to eliminate vitamin A deficiency which increases the risk of blindness in children.
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