Word: droughts
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...women's soccer team finds offense in a closet and wears it to Ohiri Field. Harvard knocks off Princeton, 2-0. Pinezich and Biggs get the Crimson goals. The Crimson writes: "The drought is over." And it wasn't even raining...
Caprio ended the drought in the second inning of the next game. Damon put third baseman Aron Allen aboard with a free pass, and Caprio moved him to second with a drive into right. Dave O'Connell followed with a sacrifice fly to right. Penn rightfielder Jason Psirogianes tried to nail Allen tagging up from second, but his errant throw allowed Aron to score and Caprio to advance to second...
While much of East Africa is afflicted by drought and famine, the continent's northern and western regions are coping with a different tribulation: locusts. Billions of the ravenous insects have swept across Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and are moving into Mauritania, Senegal and Mali. Aided by heavy rains that facilitate breeding, the swarms have grown into the worst such plague in 30 years...
...wars continue in Ethiopia: one against drought and famine, the other between government forces and well-armed insurgents. Long-suffering Ethiopians are the losers in both. In recent weeks rebels in the northern provinces of Eritrea and Tigre, where close to 3 million people are at risk of dying from starvation, have escalated their campaign against the government by ambushing food convoys, attacking grain-distribution centers, mining roads, firing on transport planes, and rocketing airfields. By last week the civil war had virtually halted the relief program in Tigre. Regional warehouses are mostly empty because roads are too dangerous...
...deal that will let him step down safely. But drug indictments against the general are a sticking point. -- In Northern Ireland, a vicious cycle of funerals and violent deaths. -- Shamir sidesteps a U. S. peace plan. -- Is the Soviet Union playing defense? -- Civil war blocks food for Ethiopia' s drought victims...