The World - News from May 19, 1985
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A fund-raising meeting for the International Fund for Agricultural Development foundered when the United States refused to contribute unless oil-rich members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries declared how much they would give. The failure of the two-day conference in Rome signaled a crisis in the organization set up in 1977 to fund food production in the world’s poorest nations.
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