Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After hearing a lecture in Moral Reasoning 22, "Justice," two students have taken ethics beyond the classroom in an effort to raise funds to help people in famine-stricken Ethiopia...
...trickle of international aid became a flood. The Soviet Union, which has largely ignored the disaster developing inside its Communist ally, announced that it was sending 400 to 500 trucks, 16 planes and 24 helicopters to distribute foodstuffs. The European Community granted nearly $42 million in emergency aid to Ethiopia, Mauritania, Niger, Mali and Chad for this year. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome approved $415.8 million in emergency aid to Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Lesotho. And Australia added $3.5 million in extra food aid to the $9 million already pledged to African countries. Said UNICEF...
...human beings with bones as thin and brittle as dead twigs produced controversy as well as compassion. The Rev. Charles Elliott, a British relief official who until last month was the director of Christian Aid, claimed that the U.S. and Britain had withheld assistance with the intention of destabilizing Ethiopia's Marxist government. M. Peter McPherson, U.S. administrator of the Agency for International Development, denied such charges and instead blamed the Soviet Union for its "callous indifference" to the plight of its African ally. The Soviets, said McPherson, have provided Ethiopia with some $3 billion worth of weapons...
Late last week U.S. and British planes jammed with food and medical supplies began arriving in Ethiopia. Until this month, shipments had remained stalled in port in Assab, and tons of grain were reported to be rotting on the dockside...
...cause of Ethiopia's agony has been a series of disastrous harvests caused by the prolonged drought. The harvest of teff, the grain crop that provides the main source of food for Ethiopians, was very poor last winter, according to a U.N. senior official in Rome, and the secondary crop that came in last spring was "a virtual failure." Said the official: "The tragedy in Ethiopia demands not only an immediate response but a sustained response...