From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: "STRONG FAMILY VALUES" (V)
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:09:33 GMT

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Infant mortality rates per 1,000 live births for the nineteen
         major industrial countries, 1989 and 1960:
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COUNTRY            1989 RATE    1960 RATE

United States         10           26
New Zealand           10           23
Italy                 10           44
Belgium               10           31
Spain                  9           47
Ireland                9           31
Germany                8           33
United Kingdom         8           23
Norway                 8           19
France                 8           29
Denmark                8           22
Austria                8           37
Australia              8           21
Switzerland            7           22
Netherlands            7           18
Canada                 7           28
Sweden                 6           16
Finland                6           22
Japan                  4           31

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[We might also add:

[United States Black   18]
[Cuba               11-13]
[Honduras:             73]
[El Salvador:          71]
[Nicaragua:           122 (U.S.-backed dictator Somoza)]
[Nicaragua:            37 (after Sandinista government health campaigns)]

[Send 1-line email GET FSLN ACHIEVE ACTIV-L to the address
LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET (or LISTSERV@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU) for
documentation of Latin American info. "13" (rather than 11) is from
Save the Children, but I forget what year, for Cuba]
]
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Sources (for chart and text): UNICEF, The State of the World's Children
1991 (New York Oxford Universty Press, 1991), pp, 102-105. Children's
Defense Fund, The State of America's Children, 1991 (Washington, D.C.: CDF,
1991), pp. 17, 166.

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  Percentage of infants born at low birth weight, 1980-88:

                LOW BIRTH                  LOW BIRTH
COUNTRY            WEIGHT(46)   COUNTRY        WEIGHT

United States         7         Egypt             5
United Kingdom        7         France            5
Australia             6         Hong Kong         5
Austna                6         Iran              5
Bulgaria              6         Japan             5
Canada                6         Jordan            5
Czechoslovakia        6         New Zealand       5
Denmark               6         Portugal          5
Germany (unified)     6         Switzerland       5
Greece                6         Finland           4
Romania               6         Ireland           4
Saudi Arabia          6         Norway            4
USSR                  6         Sweden            4
Belgium               5         Spain

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Source: UNICEF, The State of the World's Children 1991 (New York Oxford
University Press 1991). p. 104,
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>From pp 18-19 of: 

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_We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New    
World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.   

New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.   
$10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2  
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    "America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.   
    This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The   
    facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But   
    ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation."   

                        -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations   
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