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...recent Harvard dining hall campaign to raise money for famine-stricken Ethiopia, a new student organization collected $5000 in contributions from undergraduates...
...YEARS ago, when Ethiopia's last famine helped to replace Haile Selassie's regime with a Marxist government, experts said that future starvation waves would be predictable and therefore manageable. Although the experts were correct in the first assertion, they didn't realize that no one would listen to their prophesies, rendering the second meaningless. Warnings of impending doom that began to surface two years ago went virtually unheeded by western governments, the media, relief agencies and Ethiopian officials themselves until it was too late...
...what has been labeled Africa's worst famine yet, 300,000 people have already starved to death in Ethiopia and an additional 1 million may perish before the storm begins to abate. Up to seven million currently risk starvation while still others will suffer from prolonged malnutrition. Domestic harvests scheduled to commence next month probably will yield only two thirds of the usual total and the next major harvest is not expected for another year. There's no guarantee that those harvests won't fail; specialists have estimated that a minimum of 600,000 metric tons of grain will...
...latest media blitz has brought the usual round of recriminations and half-baked relief efforts, but nothing in the current debate suggests that Africa and the West have come up with anything that will help Ethiopia and other afflicted countries in the long-term...
More important, there is wide agreement by specialists that Ethiopia's agricultural plight could be reversed only by a program of sustained, substantial and intense long-term assistance. However much aid is shipped into the country during the next year, more will be needed to help Ethiopia, and its neighbors, return to productive harvests. Many officials assume that the present torrent of sympathy will subside quickly as memories of the TV footage begin to fade and world attention turns to other matters. The results would be grim...