ISLAMABAD: The eighth Asian Games are proposed to be held in Islamabad from Nov 15, 1978, it was announced here today [Nov 7] after a high-level meeting presided by the Federal Education Minister and President of the Pakistan Sports Board, Mr Abdul Hafeez Pirzada. … [Putting] stress on self-reliance, the meeting decided to mobilise all available national resources to organise the Games with as little foreign assistance as possible. It, however, appreciated offers of assistance from a number of friendly countries and decided to make maximum use of such offers. [Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Hong Kong,] China yesterday [Nov 6] declared it was now producing enough food to feed its near 800 million people although the country suffered from serious food shortage in the past. The announcement was made … as the United Nations World Food Con­fe­rence began discussions on how to prevent the current food crisis turning into a global calamity. [The report] said China, once known as a “land of famine”, began to solve, by her own efforts, the problem of feeding her growing population after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.