Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME also received, for the fifth consecutive year, the Olivier Rebbot Award,* presented by Newsweek, for the best photographic reporting from abroad. David Burnett won for TIME stories on the Ethiopian famine and the 40th anniversary of D-day, along with coverage of Jamaica for National Geographic. TIME Picture Editor Arnold H. Drapkin summed up the double win: "Although TIME is not generally thought of as a photo magazine, these awards, year after year, underscore TIME's pre-eminence in the field of photojournalism...
...Africans into slavery and greatly contributed to the South's ability to purchase slaves inexpensively during the early years of the British presence in the Americas. This Black-Arab association has plagued him in several instances, in his failure to praise the Israelis for the airlift of starving Black Ethiopian Jews form their barren homeland, in his now infamous "hymie" slur, and in his notorious alliance with Black Muslim leader and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, Jackson's economic and political ties have led him into strange difficulties...
...musicians like Jackson, Jones, and Richie know their audience, saddling the project with pictures of those bloated bellies and crying faces would destroy sales, not encourage them, and the ostensible point of the venture is to raise money, not consciousness. But the Jacksons alone could have bankrolled the whole Ethiopian relief effort (Michael's earnings last year were $40 million plus), and for every $7.00 of the cover price that goes to feed the hungry, $3.00 of valuable vinyl and paper gets sucked down the drain...
Voila the Ethiopian famine, the perfect opportunity for Jackson 14 reapply himself to the cover of Time Life's magazines. Though aided by half songster Richie (who would write a ukelele concerto if he thought it would sell.) Jackson has overshadowed everybody else's contribution Prince's no-show was a blessing in purple disguise...
...word of a secret Israeli airlift that had already taken thousands to Israel was leaked to the press. Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri slammed the door shut because of pressure from Ethiopia's Marxist government and fellow Arabs, who accused him of cooperating with the Israelis. That left hundreds of Ethiopian Jews, known as Falashas, stranded in Sudan after making the long trek to refugee camps there. Last week, however, in an operation coordinated by the Central Intelligence Agency, about ten U.S. C-130 military transport planes flew into Sudan and took an estimated 900 Falashas to Israel for resettlement...