The World - News from May 4, 1989
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Pope John Paul II lamented that children are dying in Africa and elsewhere in the Third World because their governments are forced to spend their scarce cash on debt repayment. In a speech to diplomats in Lusaka, Zambia, the Pope appealed for “new and courageous” action by creditor nations to ease the multibillion-dollar debt burden of the world’s poorest nations. The Pope also kept up his attacks on apartheid, appealed for international support for Namibian independence and urged solidarity with refugees.
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