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  1. Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!mont!pencil.cs.missouri.edu!daemon
  3. From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
  4. Subject: "STRONG FAMILY VALUES" (V)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug20.230933.1411@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
  6. Followup-To: alt.politics.elections
  7. Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
  8. Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu
  9. Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu
  10. Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
  11. Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:09:33 GMT
  12. Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
  13. Lines: 92
  14.  
  15. =============================================================
  16. Infant mortality rates per 1,000 live births for the nineteen
  17.          major industrial countries, 1989 and 1960:
  18. =============================================================
  19.  
  20. COUNTRY            1989 RATE    1960 RATE
  21.  
  22. United States         10           26
  23. New Zealand           10           23
  24. Italy                 10           44
  25. Belgium               10           31
  26. Spain                  9           47
  27. Ireland                9           31
  28. Germany                8           33
  29. United Kingdom         8           23
  30. Norway                 8           19
  31. France                 8           29
  32. Denmark                8           22
  33. Austria                8           37
  34. Australia              8           21
  35. Switzerland            7           22
  36. Netherlands            7           18
  37. Canada                 7           28
  38. Sweden                 6           16
  39. Finland                6           22
  40. Japan                  4           31
  41.  
  42. ******************************************************************
  43. [We might also add:
  44.  
  45. [United States Black   18]
  46. [Cuba               11-13]
  47. [Honduras:             73]
  48. [El Salvador:          71]
  49. [Nicaragua:           122 (U.S.-backed dictator Somoza)]
  50. [Nicaragua:            37 (after Sandinista government health campaigns)]
  51.  
  52. [Send 1-line email GET FSLN ACHIEVE ACTIV-L to the address
  53. LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET (or LISTSERV@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU) for
  54. documentation of Latin American info. "13" (rather than 11) is from
  55. Save the Children, but I forget what year, for Cuba]
  56. ]
  57. ******************************************************************
  58. Sources (for chart and text): UNICEF, The State of the World's Children
  59. 1991 (New York Oxford Universty Press, 1991), pp, 102-105. Children's
  60. Defense Fund, The State of America's Children, 1991 (Washington, D.C.: CDF,
  61. 1991), pp. 17, 166.
  62.  
  63. |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  64.  
  65.  
  66.   Percentage of infants born at low birth weight, 1980-88:
  67.  
  68.                 LOW BIRTH                  LOW BIRTH
  69. COUNTRY            WEIGHT(46)   COUNTRY        WEIGHT
  70.  
  71. United States         7         Egypt             5
  72. United Kingdom        7         France            5
  73. Australia             6         Hong Kong         5
  74. Austna                6         Iran              5
  75. Bulgaria              6         Japan             5
  76. Canada                6         Jordan            5
  77. Czechoslovakia        6         New Zealand       5
  78. Denmark               6         Portugal          5
  79. Germany (unified)     6         Switzerland       5
  80. Greece                6         Finland           4
  81. Romania               6         Ireland           4
  82. Saudi Arabia          6         Norway            4
  83. USSR                  6         Sweden            4
  84. Belgium               5         Spain
  85.  
  86.  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
  87. Source: UNICEF, The State of the World's Children 1991 (New York Oxford
  88. University Press 1991). p. 104,
  89.  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
  90.  
  91. >From pp 18-19 of: 
  92.  
  93.  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  
  94. _We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New    
  95. World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.   
  96.  
  97. New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.   
  98. $10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2  
  99.  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -   
  100.  
  101.     "America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.   
  102.     This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The   
  103.     facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But   
  104.     ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation."   
  105.  
  106.                         -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations   
  107.