Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roar of an airplane engine is one of the few things that bring hope to the Fugnido refugee camp, a desolate stretch of Ethiopia where 57,000 survivors of Sudan's civil war subsist. But on Aug. 7, Fugnido's residents listened in vain for the sound of the Twin Otter carrying Texas Congressman Mickey Leland, 44, who had visited five times before. His plane had crashed nose-first into a mountain 30 miles away, killing all 16 aboard...
Unlike many of us, who would merely file such a memory away under the heading "Tragedies Witnessed," Leland decided to do something about it. Despite the apathy of his fellow representatives, despite the chronically poor relations between the United States and Ethiopia, he formed the Select Committee on Hunger in the House and managed to appropriate $800 million for famine relief in that African nation. How many lives that $800 million has saved is unknown, possibly tens of thousands, but that was still not enough for Leland, who continued looking for solutions to the global problem of hunger...
Larry Irving, a former aide, said, "He could not see kids anywhere in the world and not try to better their lives. You remember and I remember all the hoopla about Ethiopia four years...
...many people are still focused on Ethiopia? How many people are going to spend a week of their only extended vacation trying to save some lives? But that's Mickey...
That's why he was going back to Ethiopia for the second time this year-- to save more lives. For him, there were no domestic concerns or foreign concerns, there were only human concerns. These human concerns drew his attention, to fix, to solve, to alleviate, to help...