Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Behind the facade of Marxist rhetoric and trappings lies a host of formidable social and economic woes. Last year's famine took hundreds of thousands of lives and left 4.5 million Ethiopians on the edge of starvation; most are now receiving food aid, thanks largely to Western relief programs. While rains finally broke the drought last summer, much of the population remains undernourished. In the parched northern provinces of Eritrea and Tigre, a simmering civil war is making already harsh conditions even worse. The government's conflict with rebels in those regions has driven out relief workers and blocked food...
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...
...selective Bard College in Annandale-on- Hudson, N.Y. Under the Bard plan, Carla will owe only the modest annual sum of $3,742, which she would have paid at her local state university in Shippensburg, instead of Bard's normal $14,550. Furthermore, Bard will match any additional financial aid Shippensburg might have offered, so that Carla's actual costs when she starts school in the fall may be, literally, carfare...
...Many of the loans, which have paid an average $6,000 apiece to about 4,500 borrowers in the plan's three years, are aimed at middle-class parents whose relatively comfortable incomes ($40,000 to $100,000) disqualify their children for conventional forms of need-based aid. In addition, the Massachusetts-based Consortium on Financing Higher Education, whose 30 members include Northwestern, Harvard, Yale and Stanford, provides supplemental $2,000 to $15,000 loans to the same kinds of families. This past March, Stanford for the first time extended low-interest, long-term loan plans to parents...
...opening a dialogue with Israel, Hassan won the praise of the Reagan Administration. He may also have prevented a cutback in the $140 million in aid that Morocco receives from the U.S. Congressional leaders had been unhappy with Hassan ever since he signed a largely meaningless "treaty of union" with Libya in August...