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Newspaper
Sun Journal
Location
New Bern, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1994
Page
5
As the International Conference on Population and Development opens in Cairo, experts warn that overpopulation heightens poverty inequality and environmental strain. The piece notes declines in fertility in Bangladesh and Kenya, calls for family planning and education, cites unmet need for contraceptives among 120 million couples, and projects $6 billion in aid by 2000.
Pakistan's prime minister Benazir Bhutto will attend the U N conference in Cairo after earlier hesitation amid Muslim fundamentalist opposition. She plans opening remarks with leaders Tansu Ciller and Khaleda Zia absent. Bhutto arrives Sunday and will hold talks with Egyptian President Mubarak and U N officials as the agenda warns that world population could reach 11.4 billion by 2050.
In Chicago authorities found 11 year old murder suspect Robert Sandifur shot dead under a railroad overpass. Neighbors mourn as adults guide children past the bloody scene. He had been linked to gang activity and suspected in two shootings that killed a 14 year old girl and wounded others. Police lament system failures as the boy faced repeated prosecutions and probation violations.
The Associated Press summary lists steady to down trends in hogs and hog yields across North Carolina including Spivey’s Corner Kinston Wilson Robersonville Siler City and Clinton Fayetteville Dunn Pink Hill Pine Level Chadbourn Ayden Laurinburg Benson along with detailed cattle prices for slaughter cows feeder cattle and bulls. Western markets in Asheville and Raleigh cover wholesale fruit vegetables and eggs plus North Carolina broiler prices and cotton spot rates with grain, sweet potatoes and soybeans across multiple NC towns and state-fed sales figures.
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