Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First they arrived in a trickle, which quickly became an ever increasing stream, then a flood. Gaunt, starving, often dressed in rags, thousands of Ethiopian refugees continued to stagger across the drought-stricken northern wastelands of their country last week. Their destination was neighboring Sudan. On their heels came disturbing reports of Ethiopian air force planes strafing refugee columns and bombing villages. As makeshift relief camps sprang up and swelled with alarming rapidity on the Sudanese side of the border, yet another specter began to haunt Africa: the threat that the exodus of starving people would overwhelm the meager resources...
...evidence pointed to an ominous new stage in the Ethiopian calamity, in which 7.5 million people hover on the brink of starvation. Some 3,000 Ethiopian refugees are descending each day on Sudanese relief centers, and anywhere from 250,000 to 350,000 additional refugees may arrive in the next < two months. Says Nicholas Morris, representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum: "We have had 125,000 new arrivals in the past year, 70,000 since November. We need food as fast...
Despite its magnitude, the Ethiopian evacuation is relatively orderly. Traveling on foot for as long as eight weeks from their homes in the drought- ridden northern provinces of Eritrea, Tigre and Welo, the refugees stop at makeshift rest camps provided by two of Ethiopia's major antigovernment guerrilla organizations, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (E.P.L.F.) and the Tigre People's Liberation Front (T.P.L.F.). The refugees move largely at night; otherwise, they might be attacked by Ethiopian air force planes. In one widely reported strafing run on a refugee column last month, Ethiopian jets killed 18 travelers and wounded...
...remained sketchy. It is believed, however, that a Belgian charter company, Trans European Airways, has been flying Boeing 707s to Khartoum, Sudan's capital, picking up the Falashas and flying them to Israel via Brussels and other cities in Western Europe. Israel faces considerable problems in assimilating its new Ethiopian residents. Even though their numbers are not great enough to strain school budgets or the job market, the Falashas' presence has triggered racial tension. Last month the city of Eilat (pop. 20,000) refused at first to provide a group of the newcomers with water and electricity...
...gold of a perfectly spun high C. From her 1957 debut in San Francisco, as Madame Lidoine in Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, Price was recognized as a major talent. The following year, Conductor Herbert von Karajan cast her as Aida in Vienna; when she sang the Ethiopian princess at La Scala in 1960, one Italian critic exclaimed: "Our great Verdi would have found her the ideal Aida." Her Met debut came in 1961, as Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore; that performance provoked a prolonged ovation for only the fifth black artist to sing a major role...