Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Daniel R. Abbasi '86, organizer of the Harvard Ethiopian Life Project (HELP), said yesterday that the group's goal was to collect a donation from every undergraduate. He estimated that one-third to one-half of the student population donated money...
...around the house of the dead, in a refugee camp in the small northern Ethiopian town of Bati, more than 25,000 starving people huddled together last week. Some 210 miles away there was a similar scene of destitution around the 9,000 famished people who crowded into the Quiha camp. Shrouded in a pall of woodsmoke, their new home looked like a medieval battlefield. The parched, scabrous earth was pockmarked with foxholes in which hundreds upon hundreds of families crouched for shelter against the chill mountain wind. The lucky ones had a branch to cover their dugout; others remained...
Almost as fast as the newcomers arrive, others depart. Each day in Quiha, grieving parents wrap the bodies of their children in burlap parcels tied with string and carry them to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the neighboring village. There, as priests under bright umbrellas chant ageless prayers, the tiny bodies are placed in a long trench. And each dusk in Bati, when the sun burns red and fierce, four men carry bodies from the house of the dead up a steep hill to their common grave. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by James Wilde/Bati, with other bureaus
...have gained the upper hand in their almost nine-year struggle with the Marxist guerrillas of the Polisario Front for control of the 103,000-sq.-mi. Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony. Last week, however, Morocco suffered a major diplomatic defeat. During a four-day summit in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, a majority of the 50 states in the Organization of African Unity agreed for the first time to seat the Polisario Front as a full member. An angry Hassan responded by pulling his country out of the O.A.U., becoming the first member...
...hundred percent of the money collected will go to those who need it and thats a guarantee," said Abbasi. Hyers publicizing the new group stated that a $5 donation can feed an Ethiopian family of live for one month...