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...inoculate as many people as possible in the vicinity. These were formidable goals, and many health authorities were openly skeptical that they could be achieved during WHO'S self-imposed timetable of only ten years. In some regions local tribesmen were suspicious of visiting WHO workers; in Ethiopia, two health workers were shot and killed. Some backward people refused to reveal that members of their family had smallpox. One ploy that was successfully used in Bangladesh: a $17 bounty was given to anyone who reported a case. More often, though, the workers had to make painstaking house-to-house...
...parade of athletes at Saturday's opening ceremonies moved in a hastily assembled new order as country after country-Algeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda-kept their flags furled and their representatives in the Olympic Village. This shortened the parade, which may have somewhat comforted Queen Elizabeth, who stood for an hour and 15 minutes as the banners passed in review. But the athletes involved were furious, driven to tears and even threats that they would renounce their citizenship; years of training had availed them little more than an unpack-pack-up look at the Olympic Village. There, late Saturday...
Under a searing African sun last July, Eritrean rebels burst into a U.S. naval radio station near Asmara, Ethiopia, and seized Steven Campbell, 27, a civilian technician, and another American, James Harrell, 41. The kidnapers' apparent motives: extort ransom from the U.S. and end American aid to Ethiopia. They dragged both men across 100 miles of desert in twelve days to a tent outpost. There the guerrillas held them virtually incommunicado on a diet of rice and canned vegetables...
...began to shower letters and phone calls on some 100 bureaucrats and politicians, including Congressmen and Senators-with little response. He tried to phone President Ford and Henry Kissinger but never got through. He made four personal pleas to the rebels, including a radio appeal that Radio Ethiopia never broadcast. He went on U.S. local television more than 30 times for interviews and personal entreaties. When the rebels threatened to execute his son last fall unless the U.S. handed over $5 million ransom and dismantled its military bases in Ethiopia, he stepped up his appeals to the State Department...
...Ethiopia today seems caught between the chaos and tragic contrasts of trying to impose a socialist revolution, stitched together from Marxist-Leninist textbook ideology, onto an ancient and feudal land of almost bewitching beauty and vulnerability. The mountainside city of Addis Ababa itself reflects the dichotomy. Its haunting, wild setting amid mist-covered mountains, ancient stone paths and a profusion of roses and bougainvillaea is as timeless and unchanged as its poverty-stricken population, dressed in layers of worn, soiled clothing, sleeping in rag bundles on the sidewalks, and driving small flocks of donkeys and cows through the main streets...