Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Robert S. Cobburn '85 and Daniel R. Abbasi '86 last week formed an ad hoc student group called the Harvard Ethiopian Life Project (HELP...
Last week that apathy vanished. The catalyst was dramatic television footage, shot by a BBC team and aired in the U.S. by NBC, that showed grim scenes of emaciated children and rows of corpses laid out on the cracked Ethiopian plain. Within hours, contributions from individual American citizens began pouring in to such relief agencies as Catholic Relief Services, Oxfam America and Grassroots International. All have been issuing warnings of the impending disaster in Africa for years. The U.S. Government added $10 million to the $35 million already allotted for food aid to the beleaguered country, doubling last year...
McPherson also lambasted Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam for spending more than $100 million two months ago to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the coup that brought his government to power. Mengistu, he claimed, was "not especially interested" in feeding his starving millions...
Federal District Court Judge Walter J. Skinner '48 appeared positively enthusiastic to try the case of Ephraim Isaacs, a former associate professor of Afro-American Studies who claimed he was denied tenure in 1975 because he is Black and Ethiopian...
...Isaacs case, for instance, the dean of the Faculty expressed a preference for Americanists rather than Africanists in the Afro-American Studies Department. Isaacs, whose field is Ethiopian languages and civilization, was thus excluded...