51.   Widespread hunger and a rapidly declining economy could push North Korea to acts of desperation, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Walter Mondale said Friday.

52.   Yet, despite the Serb siege, widespread hunger and isolation from headquarters in Sarajevo, he held on.

53.   On Monday, three North Korean defectors confirmed widespread hunger in the communist nation.

54.   The government came under fire last year after media reports of widespread hunger in the eastern state of Orissa.