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MICKEY Leland was found Sunday on a desolate mountainside in western Ethiopia, near the Sudanese border. Surrounded by the wreckage of the two-engine plane lies the body of the Texas representative. Not a typical memorial to a politician. But, as the ever-so-trite saying goes, he was not your typical politician...
Unlike many of us, who would merely file such a memory away under the heading "Tragedies Witnessed," Leland decided to do something about it. Despite the apathy of his fellow representatives, despite the chronically poor relations between the United States and Ethiopia, he formed the Select Committee on Hunger in the House and managed to appropriate $800 million for famine relief in that African nation. How many lives that $800 million has saved is unknown, possibly tens of thousands, but that was still not enough for Leland, who continued looking for solutions to the global problem of hunger...
Larry Irving, a former aide, said, "He could not see kids anywhere in the world and not try to better their lives. You remember and I remember all the hoopla about Ethiopia four years...
...party General Secretary Jiang Zemin also met two foreign delegations--from Romania and Ethiopia--in a show of diplomacy as usual despite icy relations with Western governments protesting China's bloody supression of unarmed demonstrators...
...Castro moved on Ochoa to send a message to the military, he could not have picked a better target. Enormously popular among the troops, Ochoa is a veteran of Castro's revolution who has commanded troops in Ethiopia, Angola and Nicaragua. In 1984 he received the Hero of the Cuban Republic medal, the military's highest honor. Last week Ochoa was removed as a full member of the Communist Party Central Committee and an elected delegate to the National Assembly. The move against Ochoa may have been personal as well as symbolic. His popularity may have threatened Defense Minister Raul...