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...things could rapidly deteriorate if the available food cannot be distributed quickly enough. "The next few weeks are crucial," said Dr. Goran Hanson, a Swedish Red Cross worker in Addis Ababa. "If food and transport do not arrive in time to keep people in their villages and prevent them from gathering in famine camps, it will simply be disaster. We desperately need food, trucks and planes. We are now short of all three...
...thousands, even millions, again face starvation? While Western experts primarily blame the lack of rain, many place much of the responsibility on the shoulders of Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam, whose rigid and secretive Communist regime has done little to avert another tragedy. Not only does the Addis Ababa government seem more concerned with putting down various insurgencies than with feeding the hungry, but it has also continued policies that seem designed to aggravate rather than resolve problems of poverty...
Signs of the strategy are evident everywhere, from the prominently displayed statues of Lenin and paintings of Stalin in Addis Ababa to the controversial policies that are creating peasant cooperatives across the countryside. A new constitution, to be adopted later this year, will enshrine the Soviet-oriented ruling Workers' Party of Ethiopia as the "guiding force of the state and the entire society." Says a Western diplomat: "Under the new constitution, Mengistu will have more power than the late Emperor." Meanwhile, more than 5,000 Soviet, East European and Cuban advisers are stationed throughout the Ethiopian armed forces and government...
...military problems in Ethiopia are compounded by unresolved conflicts with Somalia to the east and Sudan to the west. Sudan gives sanctuary to Ethiopian rebels, and Addis Ababa retaliates by supporting Sudanese guerrillas. Somalia has long been at odds with Ethiopia over the Ogaden, a hilly desert region of Ethiopia that juts deeply into Somalia's midsection...
Ethiopia's deepest fears center on the U.S. The African nation's leaders are worried that the Reagan Administration may back rebel forces against Addis Ababa, just as it supports contra efforts to oust the Marxist-Leninist Nicaraguan regime. Yet officials in Washington, which provided $282 million in emergency aid to Ethiopia last year, say they have no wish to topple Mengistu. Notes a senior diplomat: "We've told the Ethiopians that we would like to engage in a serious dialogue with them. Every time we propose a place and a time, we are rebuffed...