Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fenta, originally from Ethiopia, has used sign language to communicate ever since he attended Gallaudet College, a liberal arts school for the deaf in Washington D.C. Now in his second year at Harvard, he uses an interpreter, paid for by the University, in all of his classes...
Amid the squalor of Ethiopia's rapidly rilling refugee camps, little help appeared to be in sight last week. As of Thursday, the country had only 8,000 metric tons of grain left, and storehouses in Addis Ababa, Kembolcha and Nazaret were virtually empty. Said Taffari Wossen, chief spokesman for Ethiopia's Relief and Rehabilitation Committee: "We are getting more sympathy than assistance. In terms of actual need, we are still very far from our targets." Warned a Western relief official: "The cupboard is bare...
That will come as a surprise to many in the West, whose donations to Ethiopia's famine victims continue unabated. In the U.S., relief agencies have seldom, if ever, been busier. Oxfam America is receiving contributions at its Boston headquarters at the rate of about $1 million a month, and World Vision in California has raised $2.5 million in the past six weeks, including one check for $250,000. Canada announced a further government contribution of $5.6 million. The European Economic Community will send 55,000 metric tons of grain this month...
Ture aligned his cause with Christianity and Judaism, recalling that Ethiopia was the origin of these religions...
...promised reforms or concessions. Memories of capitalism's Great Depression endure, while the deaths of millions during forced Soviet collectivization in the same period do not. Viet Nam remains fresh in the mind; the Marxist bloodbaths of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam in Ethiopia during the late 1970s...