A chara, - Now that we have grappled with the thought of £40,000 million, I would like to propose another difficult idea. In the Jubilee year of 2000, we should assign, not a biblical 1
per cent, but even just 1 per cent to Overseas Development Aid. The financial powers of the world lost their nerve when faced with the suggestion of cancelling the international debts of highly-indebted countries. At least we can have the courage to point the way. - Yours, etc,
Padraig McCarthy, The Presbytery, Rathdrum, Co Wicklow.