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...profits were steady enough so that by 1977 Ruth decided to stop teaching. That same year a drought hit much of the South. "We didn't make anything that year," says Cross. "We decided that the only way to hold on was to go into debt for an irrigation system." Cross had no difficulty in getting a $100,000 loan from the local production credit association; his land was valued at up to $1,200 an acre, providing ample collateral. Ruth, a slim, handsome woman, went back to teaching...
...drought finally ended over the weekend as the Crimson travelled to Sunday River, Me., and captured the Bowdoin Carnival, the first of four regular-season carnivals i which it will participate...
...foreign assistance in Africa, after Egypt. In addition, partly to cope with the refugee crisis, Washington is donating at least another $60 million in emergency aid. But most of that will have to be used to feed hungry Sudanese. Says Amala Hussein, the mother of six from the drought-stricken region of Northern Kordofan: "In our area there is only hunger and thirst now. In the summer our goats, sheep and camels were all dying from lack of grass...
AFRICA. Across a wide arc south of the Sahara, the continent is plagued by drought and famine. Economic development has virtually ceased: many already poor countries are suffering declining growth rates if not widespread starvation. Grisly as it is, this situation offers the U.S. a chance to help itself diplomatically by acting on its best humanitarian instincts. The U.S. already provides more than half the emergency aid needed to feed Africa's hungry millions, a trend that has not gone unnoticed. For example, Mozambique, still officially a Marxist nation and once heavily dependent on Soviet aid, "has slid away from...
...guerrillas insist that such tactics have contributed heavily to the famine. Even before the drought began, they maintain that half a million Eritreans had been uprooted by the civil war, while thousands of others were unable to plant or store grain. Says Amdemicael Kahsai, a member of the E.P.L.F.'s central committee: "The famine is here because of the way in which the government is trying to resolve its political problems. The lack of rain has just aggravated things." The guerrillas claim that some 3.8 million people in Tigre are affected by the famine, along with 2 million in Eritrea...