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...COMEDIAN making the rounds says that instead of sending shiploads of food to the starving people of the world, we'd be wiser to send them empty U-Hauls. He explains that the Ethiopian and other famine-stricken peoples of the world are hungry because they live in deserts. The only solution, then, is to get them out of there. "We have deserts in America, too," he says. "But we don't live in them...
...civil rights movement, was "recruited to join the communist revolutionary cause in Cuba." After being trained in terrorism in Cuba and the Soviet Union, and participating "in bombings and killings" in the Middle East, he saw the light, and twelve years ago became a minister in the Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church...
Archbishop Yesehaq (pronounced Isaac) of the central Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic church in the Bronx tells me that no American named Bruce Williams or in any way following his description is a member, let alone a minister of that Church. George Wald Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus
Images of the devastating suffering caused by the Ethiopian famine stick firmly in the mind, but they tell only part of the story. A report issued by Doctors Without Borders, a Paris-based group that sends medical personnel to trouble spots around the world, charges that the Ethiopian government's efforts to resettle 575,000 famine-stricken peasants from the country's northern highlands may have left as many as 100,000 refugees dead. Says Author Claude Malhuret: "There can be no doubt that today resettlement is the biggest killer in Ethiopia, not famine...
...report is based on eyewitness accounts of relief workers and surveys conducted in Sudan among Ethiopian refugees by Cultural Survival, a U.S. human rights group. It alleges that many peasants were taken against their will, sometimes at gunpoint, and trucked south, only to be left on uncleared land with inadequate rations. M. Peter McPherson, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, has denounced resettlement as a "vast human tragedy" and calls the report a "very positive development." But an Ethiopian government official labeled French doctors' charges "preposterous...