Word: ethiopia
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...Philippines, the vicious cycle of drought is having a devastating effect. Bush fires have scorched the arid ground in Ghana and Liberia; in Brazil hot winds from the east have made the desiccated ground still dryer. Some 2 million people are seriously undernourished in South Africa; 3 million in Ethiopia are totally dependent on emergency supplies. In India, where crops throughout 75% of the land have been ruined by a dry spell that in one state has lasted five years, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has had to spend $600 million in precious foreign-exchange reserves for food imports this year...
...Some 50,000 people fled India's northwestern state of Rajasthan (pop. 34.2 million) last spring; those who stayed are often forced to sell their cattle for less than $1 a head or to smuggle them across the border into Muslim Pakistan, where they may fetch $50. In Ethiopia's rugged mountainous region of Gondar, 200 people have been fleeing across the border into Sudan each...
...week after his designation, Mengistu appeared under a hammer-and-sickle emblem to condemn "Western opposition to socialism" as "the main threat to world peace." It was enough to convince even those who are skeptical of the durability of the Soviet link of exactly where Mengistu intends to steer Ethiopia and, if he can manage it, the rest of the continent...
...energy and dedication that is characteristic of the breed, but his interest was slow to blossom. Son of a chemist from Canton, Mass., Scott Holmberg, 33, majored in English at Harvard. Then he joined the Peace Corps in 1971 and found himself working alone in the desolate villages of Ethiopia, struggling to learn Amharic, the country's language. It was there that the power of science changed his life. He vaccinated tens of thousands of people against smallpox as part of a team that effectively stopped the disease in the area. Many villagers, who believed he was a doctor...
...disclosure of an atrocity from yet another smooth-voiced press officer. Even those who run with rebels in the tropics must find the perils repetitious after a while, the colorful characters melting into abstractions. In these times, a correspondent may move so quickly from Afghanistan to Beirut to Ethiopia, it is a wonder that he is able to distinguish the names of towns from Prime Ministers. Less a wonder is that these people sometimes grow hard around the heart; when you've seen one mutilation, you've seen them all. Still, as Arthur Koestler wrote...