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...Cambodian-born MADDOX, 3, is apparently more interested in world peace than in procreation and has adopted internationally again. With much buzzed-about co-star Brad Pitt accompanying her--but not sharing in the adoption--Jolie picked up 5-month-old baby Zahara Marley, an AIDS orphan, in Ethiopia, last week. Maddox and she "are very happy to have a new addition to our family," Jolie told People. Aww ... How long before Zahara has her own punk-rock 'do just like her brother...
Now… to get back to writing this rejection letter for a grant Ethiopia applied...
...Agriculture Organization's (FAO) biannual conference in Rome last week, Director-General Edouard Saouma announced that Africa's best rains in years were producing record harvests in some areas. As a result, only five of the 21 African countries that needed emergency food aid this year--Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Sudan--remain on the list, and in 1986 Africa will need less than half the 7 million tons of food aid it required this year. Still, Saouma was quick to warn that the crisis was not over. "The rains have recovered," he said. "Africa...
...coincidence that, with the exception of Botswana, all the countries faced with continuing food emergencies are racked by civil wars. In Ethiopia, fighting between rebels and government forces in the northern provinces of Tigre and Eritrea has severely limited farming. Catholic Relief Services estimates that 5 million to 6 million Ethiopians still need food aid, and many of them are in unreachable war zones. But transportation in the rest of Ethiopia should improve in December with the arrival of 250 trucks donated by U.S. AID, the Live Aid Foundation and the Band Aid Trust...
...Marcos Jr., a former provincial governor known to family and friends as Bong-bong, steps up to a mike, sporting makeup and a flashing electronic bow tie, and joins in on a raucous rendition of We Are the World, the song recorded to raise money for the starving in Ethiopia...