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...People can't just close their eyes to politics. The American public shouldn't be told that drought is the only cause or even the major cause of famine in Ethiopia," Clay said. He added that many of the refugees interviewed had lived through worse droughts before government actions made subsistence impossible...
Because at the 101 minute mark, the Crimson ended a scoreless drought of more than 400 minutes when Ian Hardington headed a Nick Hotchkin pass to the left of diving Big Green goalkeeper Jim Cisneros to give the booters a 1-0 victory...
Yale: perennially, the second most powerful crew in the East. The Elis share the region's top billing with Harvard after surviving a drought of strong rowers in the early...
First there was Band Aid. Then USA for Africa. Most recently Live Aid, a memorably star-studded, superglam affair. All were for the benefit of African drought victims. Next Sunday the trend continues, albeit for a different group and in a slightly lower gear: Willie Nelson and some of his country music cousins are planning Farm Aid, a benefit concert at the University of Illinois football stadium in Champaign (pop. 58,000) to benefit debt-ridden American farmers...
Burkina Faso's Sankara has also inherited a country in economic torpor, and one that because of a chronic drought has actually become poorer since he took over in a coup in August 1983. Sankara has cut civil servants' wages and raised taxes. One problem is that his regime's inflammatory rhetoric keeps bubbling to the surface, making some countries hesitant to offer economic aid. Last month, for example, a government-run newspaper compared President Reagan to Hitler, prompting the U.S. to cut back its commitment to two development projects in forestry and agriculture. France, which in 1984 contributed...