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...raising money often proved the easy part. In Ethiopia, the Marxist government of Mengistu Haile Mariam, which is battling guerrillas in the country's northern provinces, promptly turned aid into a political tool. Government troops seized a food-laden ship to keep supplies from reaching the rebel-held north, where the famine was most severe. In Sudan, guerrillas battling Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi's regime shot down a passenger plane last August, killing 60 people, and threatened to shoot any relief aircraft that tried to land in the south, where some 2 million Sudanese needed food...
...proud to have been associated with TIME's journalistic excellence, which has included exclusive interviews with Ronald Reagan, Corazon Aquino and Ethiopia's Mengistu Haile Mariam. Our coverage ranged from the protracted agony of South Africa to the outpouring of People Power in the Philippines, the tragedy of Challenger to the triumph of Voyager, the classical genius of Pianist Vladimir Horowitz to the postmodern wit of Pop Singer David Byrne. And we continue to receive accolades from our peers. In 1986 TIME won the National Magazine Award for excellence in design, and the Overseas Press Club singled out TIME photographers...
...three years as Ethiopia's Foreign Minister, Goshu Wolde dutifully defended the policies of Marxist Leader Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam. But last week his message was different. Meeting with reporters at the United Nations in New York, Wolde said he was resigning his post and lashed out at his nation's pro-Soviet regime. Said he: "I have recently watched, with helplessness, as my country slipped further and further into authoritarianism and absolute dictatorship, with the inevitable consequences of intolerance and repression...
...seemed peace might be restored. But before long, the fighting resumed. In May the first national election since 1968 brought to power Sadiq el Mahdi, leader of the moderate Muslim Umma Party. Making peace his top priority, the Oxford-educated Sadiq lost no time in arranging a meeting in Ethiopia with Garang, who holds a doctorate in agricultural economics from Iowa State. Yet the two leaders could not concur on terms for a cease-fire. Last week Sadiq agreed to repeal the September laws within ten days. But how he would unify a country with 160 ethnic groups speaking...
...from malnutrition. At Narus, on the Kenyan border, ten children a day were dying of measles and malnutrition. "A lot of the children were as + bad as anything I've ever seen," said Andrew Warren, a World Concern employee who recently returned from the camp, "even worse than in Ethiopia...