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The whole world is talking about the stories in
THE OMEGA CONNECTION:

"A diet rich in these (fish) fats reduces the tendency of blood to clot, much the way that aspirin does; it also helps lower the level of cholesterol in the blood. Both effects could help explain the low rate of heart disease in Eskimos." —TIME

"Thinner blood and few clots means less atherosclerosis and, possibly, less heart disease." "Fish oils may even play a part in preventing certain types of cancers." —FDA CONSUMER

"Fish, long touted as a brain food, has legitimate claim as a heart food. Fish contains a polyunsaturated fat—made of omega-3 acids—which may prevent heart attacks." —BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS

"Grandma was right. A teaspoon of fish oil a day could keep the doctor away." —USA TODAY

"So even a little fish might help offset the potentially dangerous effects of a high-fat diet." —BUSINESS WEEK

"In a way, the fish oil story seems almost too good to be true. Not only does this type of oil favor the health of arteries, but it also appears to act against inflammation, and so it may prove useful in a class of diseases, such as arthritis, in which inflammation gets out of hand." —HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL HEALTH LETTER

Three studies published in this issue of the Journal support the possibility that the consumption of fish may be of special benefit to human health." —NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

**THE OMEGA CONNECTION**—*The Facts About Fish Oils and Human Health* unearths every significant aspect of the most explosive medical breakthrough of this century. It answers every question you could possibly ask about good and bad effects of eating fish or taking fish oil supplements.

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## THE OMEGA CONNECTION—

**The Facts About Fish Oils and Human Health**—reveals the details of one of the most significant medical breakthroughs of the 20th century. This discovery if applied correctly, can rid the world of such dread diseases as heart attacks, stroke, hypertension, cancer, arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis, migraine, psoriasis, diabetes and scores of others. THE OMEGA CONNECTION traces the history of this discovery, presents complex scientific theories in easy-to-understand form and analyzes all pros and cons of eating fish or taking fish oil supplements. THE OMEGA CONNECTION also educates the reader about the various diseases that fish fat—the omega-3 fat—claims to treat and warns the reader of the hazards of unsaturated fats so highly touted as a substitute for saturated fats. THE OMEGA CONNECTION also proves why margarine, milk, peanut butter, artificial creamer can be dangerous to health.

**THE OMEGA CONNECTION** is a story of people who have proven to the medical world that the odds of dying of heart disease and many other common ailments of the Western world can be beaten. This is a story of Greenland Eskimos, Alaskan natives and Japanese fishermen who have developed immunity towards the diseases that kill over 90% of the Western world citizens. Can we adopt these means to improve our chances of living a long healthy life? THE OMEGA CONNECTION PROVIDES THE ANSWER. The MEDICAL WORLD has just rendered its verdict— WE CAN.

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Sarfaraz K. Niazi, Ph.D. is an associate professor of pharmacodynamics at the University of Illinois. He has been involved in the evaluation, development and testing of fish oils for several years.

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Oak Brook, Illinois 60522-3354

## What are the aims of the International Baccalaureate Organisation?

- To improve and extend international education and so promote international understanding.

- To expand a rigorous, balanced and internationally oriented curriculum and examination as an academic passport to higher education.

- To collaborate with national education systems.

- To serve the special needs of the international community and facilitate student mobility.

## What is the International Baccalaureate?

The IB provides an international curriculum and university entrance qualification. The Diploma is unique in satisfying the admission requirements of Universities in more than fifty countries.

This is of great significance to the internationally mobile communities of commerce and industry, both as regards recruitment and education of families of personnel.

The IB syllabus pioneers new concepts in balanced education and, over twenty years, has successfully built a bridge between differing cultural traditions. It steers a carefully plotted course between specialisation, which tends to be favoured in the United Kingdom, and breadth, which is often found elsewhere.

English, French and Spanish are three of the world's most widely recognised languages. The IB curriculum and examination papers are available in all three, providing a common standard and yardstick of attainment worldwide.

Over three hundred and fifty schools, both national and international, now offer the IB syllabus. Their number is expanding by about ten per cent each year and, to date, some 12,000 International Baccalaureate Diploma holders have entered universities in North America, Europe and other continents.

## How is the International Baccalaureate organised?

The IBO is an independent, non-political organisation with headquarters in Geneva and other offices in Bath, Buenos Aires, London, New York and Singapore. It is also represented in Mexico, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

The Council of Foundation includes representatives from governments and schools worldwide, together with distinguished international academics and business representatives.

Broad academic policy is formulated by a Curriculum Board, whose conclusions are implemented by specialised Subject Committees. The Board of Chief Examiners is responsible for the preparation of IB examinations and their assessment.

## How is it financed?

The IBO is a non-profit foundation registered under Swiss law. Income is derived from three main sources: from the annual membership dues of participating schools; from examination fees; and from the governments and foundations of beneficiary countries.

Revenue from these sources finances day-to-day operation, but leaves little for analytical and innovative research, for the provision of a financial reserve, or for major capital expenditure.

January 14, 1987

MEMO FOR HAK

FROM: Rosemary

SUBJECT: Your Recollections of Dr. John Hannah in the World Food Conference Context - For A Book

At the request of John Hannah, former AID head and Deputy Secretary of the World Food Conference, a book is being written on his government experiences. It is being prepared by a Professor Emeritus and Dean of International Studies of Michigan State University, Dr. Richard Niehoff. (Hannah was once President of MSU).

Dr. Niehoff has written advising you of his current interest in preparing the section on Hannah's involvement in the World Food Conference and Council. Included is high praise for your own statesmanship in supporting the World Food Conference (including on the basis of research done at the GRF Library in Ann Arbor). Hannah is viewed as having been able to build on your approach with strong support from Sayid Marei (whose appreciation of Hannah is attached) and Waldheim. Your role will be included.

The request from Niehoff is for your recollections of John Hannah's work (see p 2), especially focussed on the World Food Conference and subsequent Council, as well as any personal recollections of your association including in his role as AID administrator. These would be included in the book.

Comment: This is going to take some considerable reconstruction. I have only vague recollections of how Hannah intersected with NSC work and you have not yet written about the period of the World Food conference (although we do have some research on it). An alternative approach might be to suggest that Niehoff provide what he has written on this subject and point out areas where he would like your views (or is this unseemly - for you and for him?)

Do you want to provide something and if so

Have me try my hand at a short statement of a general nature on Hannah?

Draft a staff letter (from me) saying you would be glad to comment on Niehoff's draft as the most efficient way of being of help

No reply necessary now; wait

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AND PROGRAMS
OFFICE OF THE DEAN

EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN 48824-1035

JAN 13 1987

January 7, 1986

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
1800 K Street N.W., Suite 400
Washington, D.C. 20006

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

At the request of Dr. John A. Hannah, I have been preparing a draft book-length account of his extensive (off campus) activities while President and after he retired from the Presidency of Michigan State University. Included in these activities was his work as Chairman of the United States Civil Rights Commission for twelve years, under four Presidents; his Directorship of the Agency for International Development for three years; and his activities for four years as Deputy Secretary of the World Food Conference followed by his work as Executive Director of the World Food Council. During his tenure with the last three organizations he had some association with you while you were Secretary of State.

During the past several weeks I have been particularly involved in preparing a draft chapter on the World Food Conference and Council. In my research in the Archives and Historical Collections of Michigan State University and at the Gerald Ford Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I became familiar with your excellent and far sighted speech at the second plenary session of the World Food Conference and other material including an excellent unpublished manuscript by James Dickinson Grant for the degree of BA (honors at Harvard University) on "The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD): A Case Study in Global Cooperation." These materials demonstrate your creative and persistent efforts and the efforts of others (including President Ford and Senator Humphrey) to secure the active leadership and participation of the United States in supporting the World Food Conference and Council. Your support for the U.S. initial contribution of 200 million U.S. dollars, which was necessary to secure the support of the OPEC (for 400 million), European and even the developing countries to complete the one billion dollar fund which made it possible for IFAD to start their innovative program to deal with the massive problems of world hunger and malnutrition, was highly instrumental. Your speech in Rome and on other occasions at the United Nations and within the U.S. bureaucracy (especially Agriculture Under Secretary Butz and some in the State Department, as well as with President Ford) were critical in this account. The record shows that Dr. John Hannah built on this base and with the support of Sayed Marei and Secretary General Waldheim "orchestrated" the practical measures which put the World Food Council and IFAD into operation. As revealed in the attached copy of a letter from Sayed Marei, his confidence in Dr. Hannah was also a critical factor in this exciting and creative story of global collaboration.

I have tried objectively to include yours and the contributions of other in my draft account.

Telephone: 517/355-2350

Telex: 810-251-0737

Cable: MSUINTPRO ELSG

MSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger

January 7, 1986

What I now need from you, Sir, to help fill out the record, are the personal memories and recollections of your association with Dr. Hannah, with reference to his work within the government of the United States and in the United Nations. I would be particularly interested in your views as to how he used his extensive knowledge of agriculture and international development and contacts with United States and world leaders in these fields to guide him in influencing the strategies for and programs which evolved out of the debates of the World Food Conference for creating the first organization to deal effectively with the complex global problems of hunger and malnutrition. I appreciate that what I am requesting of you is not easy, but I hope that you can sit back and dictate some notes which I can incorporate in the final draft of this account, especially focused on the World Food Conference and Council but if you wish to include comments on your association with him in connection with the Agency for International Development and President Nixon, which I will be researching during the next few months, I will also appreciate those comments and reflections.

I will greatly appreciate your assistance in this endeavor. Thanks.

An abbreviated curriculum vitae of my background for this voluntary effort on my part is enclosed.

Enclosures

SAYED MAREI

9 SHAQARET EL DORR STREET
ZAMALEK - CAIRO
EGYPT

سبيكة
فندق شعيره السدر
الزملك - الاقامة
مصر

7th November, 1986

Prof. Richard O. Niehoff
Michigan State University
International Studies and Programs
East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1035

Dear Professor Niehoff,

I have received both your letters of August 28 and
October 14, but was unable to reply earlier as I was outside
Egypt for sometime.

I am delighted to write on John Hannah. Rather than
list, as it were, the activities of John Hannah, I find it
more fitting to record the impressions that he left on me
during that period. Indeed, this is the more so because
in a world conference which is dealing with a subject such
as food, nothing could ever have been accomplished unless
actions emanated from the core of one's nature. To talk
of food is at once to talk of hunger. And unless one has
a feel of what that means, one's actions would be thwarted.

Myself, a man of the third world, I have my
appreciation of what all this means. When John Hannah was
nominated as my assistant, I must confess I had doubts as
to what extent could a man of the advanced or rich world
understand, feel, and react to the hunger problem.

This I felt, without any misgivings, on my part as
to his reputed academic and professional achievements. In
my first meeting with him, the sole purpose I set my mind
on was never to test his professional capabilities, but
solely to gauge the extent of his appreciation for famine,
hunger, undernutrition and poverty in general.

It was indeed a pleasant surprise when it became
clear to me from the first meeting with John that I was
talking to someone who not only demonstrated a genuine
concern for this complex issue, but was also outlining
solutions which he felt should be shouldered by the developed
world.

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سيد مري

شاعر شجرة الدر

الزموالك - القناة

مصر

2.

Thus we started working together. As time went on, John Hannah's actions only confirmed my favourable initial impressions of him. He felt that the U.N. Organizations such as FAO were pursuing theoretical approaches. He wholeheartedly agreed with me that we could follow an action-oriented path which the U.N. institutions are reluctant to follow. He felt that these organizations kept duplicating their research and the result was inertia. He therefore insisted that we do our own research, we interpret our own findings, and be frank in our dialogues.

An issue to which I devoted considerable attention from the very start was the necessity of creating an Agricultural Development Fund. Apart from channelling funds for agricultural development in the third world, I felt that such a Fund would have another impact in terms of drawing attention to the importance of agriculture and thus indirectly influencing the flow of funds from other institutions.

After two years of hard work, our dream for a fund became a reality. It was in this respect that John Hannah played a most constructive role which will be remembered for a long time. The position of the U.S.A. was not favouring the creation of the Fund and was against multi-lateral aid in general. The amazing thing is that John never wavered about his belief in the Fund and went on persistently emphasizing the need for it, in the face of serious opposition from the U.S.A. His work in this respect unveiled a trait in his character: an unusual sense of determination. In the end an international Fund was created in which the developed world have one-third of the voting power, OPEC one-third, and other developing countries the remaining third. As such it became the only international financial institution where the developing countries as a group had two-thirds of the voting power. It therefore represented a concrete step in a New International Economic order, with nothing matching it to date, and perhaps for a long time to come.

Throughout his work, John depicted a conspicuous modesty and preferred to work steadily and quietly away from the media to which he showed some sort of distaste.

SAYED MAREI

9 SHAGARET EL DORR STREET

ZAMALEK - CAIRO

EGYPT