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...School of Journalism and the National Press Photographers Association. Says Picture Editor Michele Stephenson: "The awards are special because they recognize photographs across the spectrum of subjects, illustrating famine, homeless people, war, science, personalities, politics." An image honored in both contests, taken by Staff Photographer William Campbell, depicted an Ethiopian woman cradling her starving child. It was the cover of our Dec. 21, 1987, issue...
Officials say Pillsbury was the suspected source for an April 1986 Washington Post story revealing that a U.S. embassy official arrested and tortured by the Ethiopian government two years earlier had been a CIA agent. The story may have endangered the lives of the CIA officer's Ethiopian contacts...
...fighting back," says a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa. Mengistu himself has been making frequent trips to the north to oversee military operations. But the rebels are said to be gaining ground daily while relief officials watch their distribution lines crumble. Brother Gregory Flynn, who works for the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat, put it this way: "We have trucks, we have planes, we have the food pledges. We have the structure in place, but people will starve because...
...stronger of the two parties, Mengistu's government, is the source of most of the trouble. Says an aid official in Washington: "I'll tell you what the government's three priorities are: fighting the rebels, fighting the rebels and fighting the rebels." Comments a colleague: "The Ethiopian government has the worst human rights record in Africa...
Though Mengistu is widely blamed for the disaster, the series of famines actually began in 1973, under the inept and autocratic Emperor Haile Selassie. Far from seeking help, the Ethiopian government in the 1970s strenuously denied that any famine existed, and U.N. officials diplomatically remained silent about the tragedy...