Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City-of-Cambridge-sponsored Ethiopian concern committee will hold two benefit concerts this month at Harvard to raise money for the famine-stricken nation...
Dawit's musings infuriated M. Peter McPherson, U.S. administrator of the Agency for International Development. The Ethiopian charges were "just absurd," he said. "Frankly, I think this is the classic example of biting the hand that feeds you." U.S. officials note that Ethiopia's Marxist government had spent more than $100 million on its tenth anniversary celebration last September. Said a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa: "Once they got the anniversary out of the way, they could turn their attention to the drought...
Relief agencies tried to rush food to the starving country by diverting grain shipments from other destinations. The World Food Program rerouted a freighter carrying 28,000 metric tons of grain to an Ethiopian port. Even so, the ship will not arrive until Dec. 12. Another vessel, carrying 10,000 metric tons of U.S. Government-donated grain to India, changed course and headed for the beleaguered country. In all, 80,000 metric tons of food were bound for Ethiopia last week. Yet even that was far from adequate. The Ethiopian government estimates that 1.2 million metric tons of grain will...
...extent of the famine was brought home last week to Texas Democratic Congressman Mickey Leland. Chairman of the House Select Committee on Hunger. After completing a five-day visit to two Ethiopian relief stations. Mekele and Korem, he described the experience with a quavering voice: "It was incredible to me. The suffering of those little children in the hospital in Mekele-never have I seen anything so horrifying...
...therefore manageable. Although the experts were correct in the first assertion, they didn't realize that no one would listen to their prophesies, rendering the second meaningless. Warnings of impending doom that began to surface two years ago went virtually unheeded by western governments, the media, relief agencies and Ethiopian officials themselves until it was too late...