At a special gathering of the General Assembly, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations celebrated its thirty-ninth birthday. At the same time, the Assembly observed the annual World Food Day, which was inaugurated by an FAO conference four years ago. This year's keynote speaker was Professor John Kenneth Galbraith. The subject he chose was characteristically titled: “The Agricultural System and the Enduring Error.”

Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, in conflict with both the current South African Government and supporters of violent revolutionary action, is said to offer a nonviolent, multiracial, and liberal-democratic approach to the struggle against apartheid. The controversial Zulu chief, chief minister of the tribal “homeland” of KwaZulu, and leader of the (legal) Inkatha movement in South Africa, was interviewed on February 18 at Occidental College, Los Angeles, during a ten-day tour of the United States. Rafael Suarez, Jr., is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for Cable News Network, through whose courtesy this interview has been made available to Worldview.

For Ines de Jesus Castellanos, a forty-two-year-old northern dirt farmer, there was one underlying reason to vote in El Salvador's March 31 legislative and municipal elections. According to Castellanos, it was essential to have a government stamp on his voter registration card just in case soldiers swept through his hometown of Jutiapa and demanded that residents of the rebel-dominated northern zone demonstrate their support for the regime.