Word: ethiopia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...State George Shultz in a subsequent address in San Francisco, because if these "freedom fighters" are defeated, their countries will be irrevocably lost behind an Iron Curtain of Soviet domination. And democratic tradition, said the President, because to support "our brothers" in revolution is to continue--"in Afghanistan, in Ethiopia, Cambodia, Angola . . . (and) Nicaragua"--200 years of American support for "Simon Bolivar . . . the Polish patriots, the French Resistance and others seeking freedom...
...extending "our sympathies" to liberation movements in the Third World, he also served notice that the Soviet Union would continue to provide more than just sympathy to the Sandinistas of Nicaragua, the Marxist rulers of Ethiopia, the Viet Nam-backed puppet government of Kampuchea and the Babrak Karmal regime of Afghanistan. In effect, Gorbachev was offering his own rejoinder to the Reagan doctrine of American support for anti-Communist guerrilla movements...
Harry Belafonte remembers seeing a television film of an Australian doctor working in Ethiopia, caring for a starving child and surrounded by thousands of others. The doctor said, "I do what I can and take it one at a time." Harry Belafonte thought, "We could also take it one at a time," and he picked up the phone...
...battle has long since extended from Jewish themes to a concern for children everywhere. "The specter of starvation is not something consigned to the '30s and '40s," he says. "I look at the screen and see the swollen bellies and haunted eyes of the very young in Cambodia, in Ethiopia, in South America. I could have been that child. I was that child. And I must make a gesture...
Sometimes the gesture is a book, but often it is a journey to the side of the sufferers. Four years ago, Wiesel went to Cambodia to aid refugees and, a year ago, to Nicaragua to help the abused Miskito Indians. He plans to leave soon for Ethiopia. "I bring food," he says. "It is never enough, but to save one life is to save the world. And perhaps I can convince one other to save one more life...