Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three years as Ethiopia's Foreign Minister, Goshu Wolde dutifully defended the policies of Marxist Leader Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam. But last week his message was different. Meeting with reporters at the United Nations in New York, Wolde said he was resigning his post and lashed out at his nation's pro-Soviet regime. Said he: "I have recently watched, with helplessness, as my country slipped further and further into authoritarianism and absolute dictatorship, with the inevitable consequences of intolerance and repression...
Health professionals warn that mass education to combat AIDS is not easily carried out in the developing world, where poverty and illiteracy are rampant. Even so, public-education drives linking promiscuity to the spread of AIDS are under way in several countries, including Kenya, Ethiopia and Haiti...
...seemed peace might be restored. But before long, the fighting resumed. In May the first national election since 1968 brought to power Sadiq el Mahdi, leader of the moderate Muslim Umma Party. Making peace his top priority, the Oxford-educated Sadiq lost no time in arranging a meeting in Ethiopia with Garang, who holds a doctorate in agricultural economics from Iowa State. Yet the two leaders could not concur on terms for a cease-fire. Last week Sadiq agreed to repeal the September laws within ten days. But how he would unify a country with 160 ethnic groups speaking...
...from malnutrition. At Narus, on the Kenyan border, ten children a day were dying of measles and malnutrition. "A lot of the children were as + bad as anything I've ever seen," said Andrew Warren, a World Concern employee who recently returned from the camp, "even worse than in Ethiopia...
...Mengistu, the message is clear. Though he could move closer to the Soviet camp, he cannot economically afford to break with the U.S. and the West. While Moscow supplies the weapons to combat Ethiopia's rebels, only the advanced industrial nations can provide the financial and technological assistance that the country needs to develop its supine economy. Given his Marxist philosophy and nationalist instincts, Mengistu seems determined to walk the fine line between East and West...