The World - News from Jan. 20, 1988

Up to 100 million children who would otherwise die by the end of the century in Third World nations could be saved with better use of existing technology, a UNICEF official told a conference of Nobel Prize winners in Paris. James Grant, representing the U.N. Children’s Fund, said he told conference participants that developing nations are just now making use of radio and television as a means to reach homes and tell parents how their children can be saved from often-fatal maladies like measles and diarrhea. “Science and technology in recent years has given us great new opportunities to make progress, if we only seize the opportunities,” Grant said.