Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proceeds, and the singers showed up for no salary. Ken Kragen, a personal manager whose clients include Kenny Rogers and Lionel Richie, was one of the first people Harry Belafonte called. It was Kragen who suggested making the sort of record that British rockers had released on behalf of Ethiopian relief during the holiday season, Do They Know It's Christmas? Kragen calculates, conservatively, that USA for Africa could pull in $50 million. But, he cautions, "more than a billion dollars is needed just to feed people in Africa this year...
...premature release of news about the airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel: I feel very bad about it. I believe the efforts Israel makes, with the support of others, to bring over 10,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel brought Israel (to a realization) of the reason for its existence more than anything else. There are a quarter of a million Ethiopian refugees in Sudan. Who gives a damn about them except Israel...
...then, Leonard always seems more interested in sociology than suspense. His supporting cast springs from that circle where commerce, show business and crime are hard to separate. Casino Manager Jackie Garbo likes to impress visitors with his autographed celebrity photos. Bodyguard Moosleh Hajim Jabara strains parody as an Ethiopian-born retired pro-football player who changed his name to DeLeon Johnson. LaDonna Holly Padgett is a former Miss Oklahoma and Miss Congeniality well on her way to such titles as Miss Cordial and Miss Bloody Mary. The rub-out of a Mafioso in the mandatory spaghetti joint summons...
...trickiest political problems has been the arrival among the refugees of Ethiopian Jews, called Falashas (the Amharic word for strangers). The remnants of an ancient tribe that has kept alive Jewish religious practices, these Ethiopians became the object of a secret evacuation by Israel, code-named Operation Moses. According to various estimates, between 3,000 and 7,000 of them reached Israel before word of the rescue operation leaked out. Nimeiri, whose government is a member of the Arab League and has no diplomatic relations with Israel, was embarrassed by the spotlight on Sudanese cooperation in the resettlement and ordered...
...Hashem Osman called in Arab, African and Asian diplomats to charge that Ethiopia had been "closing its eyes" to the Falasha exodus in return for weapons and money from Israel. Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Goshu Wolde countered with the accusation that Sudan had been bribing "a large number of Ethiopian Jews to flee Ethiopia...