Word: ethiopia
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...course, there are newspapers that do have their priorities straight. On April 12, when most other papers designed their front pages around an article mentioning Elian's planned meeting with his father, the Washington Post pushed the issue to the side to make space for a lead article on Ethiopia's striking famine. But these attempts to balance the news of children dying at a rate of a dozen a day in some Ethiopian towns with the fate of a cute six-year-old are too rare...
...East Timorese died, and more than three-quarters of the population fled their homes, according to U.N. estimates. East Timor joined the world's list of nations at the very bottom: the World Bank estimated per capita GDP at $240, on a par with nations like Mozambique and Ethiopia...