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Show Thursday, December 25, 1975, THE HERALD, Provo, Utah-Pa- 65 ge Focus on 1 976: Outlook for Hungry of the World Bleak - ROME (UPI) The world failed to replenish its depicted food stocks in 1975 and the outlook for the hungry in 1976 is bleak. Bumper grain harvests in North America were offset by poor crops in Europe and the Soviet Union and yearend wheat stocks are likely to be even lower than in 1974 when they were drained by a worldwide food shortage. As a result, the world will be dependent for what it eats in 1976 on what it grows. With little reserves to fall back on, bad harvests could be disastrous for the world's 500 million already underfed. The 1974 world food crisis "could well return in even more acute form in the yar or so ahead," said Holland's Addeke H. Boerma, who retires Dec. 31 after eight years as director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). His bleak forecast was supported by delegates from FAO's 137 member nations meeting at the organiztion's Rome headquarters in November. "While there has been some improvement in the world food situation compared with 1974, the overall situation remains precarious," their report said. The delegates noted that while there was an urgent need for increased food production improvement any long-terin the world food situation re- quired the restructuring world's economic system. French Health Minister Veil said it was a "real scandal" that while people in poor countries were dying of hunger, persons in rich nations were eating, drinking and smoking themselves to death. According to FAO statistics of the world's popula d one-thir- of its tion consumes food, 500 million persons suffer from chronic hunger, and two-thir- undernourishment persistent cripples 400 million more half of them children. In an attempt to eradicate the age-ol- d scourge of hunger, world leaders from 130 nations met in Rome in November, World 1974, at the first-evFood Conference. They pledged to launch a and expressed disappointment in governments' response to food aid the target. "A year ago the World Food Crisis had pro- pelled food problems to the front of world thinking but I fear at the moment they may have moved back to the back burners," U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl L.Butz said in Rome. The fight against hunger also is bogged down in bureaucracy and political infighting. The first meeting of the estab- World Food Council lished by the World Food Conference to spearhead the campaign anti-hung- almost ended in disaster when African and Latin American nations attempted to sack the American-le- secretariat d it fail ed to provide translators for a Third World because caucus. The translators were busy eating lunch. At FAO's governing confer- ence in Nov;mber, Libya charged the United States and Israel with "feeding the world with bullets and bombs" and called for their expulsion from the organization. Arab delegates walked out when Israel's representati ve took the rostrum and Third World nations clashed with the West on whether to give food aid to guerrilla units. The conference eventually ended in a series of compro-mises that officials said reflected the general desire not to disrupt the working of the agency and its attack on world hunger. It left officials at FAO midway between optimism and gloom, and a feeling that the battle against hunger was not moving ahead fast enough. er worldwide "inn U nutritional program, set up a 1.2 billion agricultural development fund, establish an international grain reserve and give a minimum of 10 million tons of grain each year to needy nations. Their ultimate goal, they said, was to wipe out hunger in r '"v ry fil UuTOUVJ A 10 years. But 12 months later none of these lofty schemes have gotten off the ground and at ording to Boerma ehuiination of hunger "cannot be brought about within the next 10 years." He said progress towards establishing an internationally coordinated food reserve system was "lamentably slow," 7 Food Gum PEORIA, 111. (UPI) -Scientists have found a substitute for gluten in dietetic and fast foods made from starch and soybean protein. The USDA Agricultural Research Service here says xanthan gum might be used in foods for persons allergic to gluten. They said it is especially promising for fast foods such as hamburger buns, pancakes, doughnuts and prepared mixes. It could also be used in baked foods in areas where bread wheats are not grown, they added. 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