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March 31, 1980

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a reporter at large

THE WORLD'S RESOURCES II-MINERALS, FOOD, AND WATER

Richard J. Barnet

REPORTER AT LARGE about world supplies of minerals, food and water and problems connected with the unequal distribution of them.