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While aid from around the world continued to pour into drought-ravaged Ethiopia, a government relief official last week paused to discuss the reasons for the tragedy. "What is happening in many parts of the country now could so easily have been prevented," said Dawit Wolde Giorgis, commissioner of relief and rehabilitation. "It needed the horrifying pictures of death and starvation on the television screens in North America and Europe to galvanize the world into taking notice of what was happening...
Dawit's musings infuriated M. Peter McPherson, U.S. administrator of the Agency for International Development. The Ethiopian charges were "just absurd," he said. "Frankly, I think this is the classic example of biting the hand that feeds you." U.S. officials note that Ethiopia's Marxist government had spent more than $100 million on its tenth anniversary celebration last September. Said a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa: "Once they got the anniversary out of the way, they could turn their attention to the drought...
Journalists never forget their landscapes of the dead. Photographer David Burnett, on assignment for TIME, spent five days last month at two of the camps set up for Ethiopia's starving population. Says he: "It is not the millions who really batter at your emotions. It is each individual person, like the little naked girl I photographed sitting on a rock: she was not strong enough to stand, not strong enough even to eat. I still see her face." Burnett was also struck by individual images of compassion. "There were so many loving moments, a mother with her baby...
...point of showing up at 10:30 a.m. in a London studio to record Do They Know It's Christmas? The one-day superstar session-dubbed Band Aid-was organized by Bob Geldof, leader of the British group Boomtown Rats, to raise money for the famine victims of Ethiopia. The $2 single, which will be released in the U.S. this week, has already sold a million copies in England, where it appeared three weeks ago. The record is "enough to make a difference, but it's also a statement," says Sting, part of the charity jam. The money...
...Reagan Administration has promised 195,000 metric tons of food to Ethiopia, but not all of it has been shipped. In contrast, the Soviet Union has given the country little more than 300 trucks, 24 helicopters and 12 planes to deliver the West's food and supplies. The Soviets have donated only 20,000 metric tons of rice. Says a British official: "They came in late and probably decided it wasn't worth their while to catch...